James Turnbull is an
Australian free software and
open source
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author and software developer. He lives in
Brooklyn,
New York
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Film and television
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, where he is VP of Product and Engineering at Smartrr and an advisor at
Access Now
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. Before that, he was co-chair of the Velocity conference, led engineering at
Sotheby's, startup advocacy at
Microsoft, was founder and CTO at Empatico, CTO at
Kickstarter
Kickstarter is an American public benefit corporation based in Brooklyn, New York, that maintains a global crowdfunding platform focused on creativity. The company's stated mission is to "help bring creative projects to life". As of July 2021, ...
, VP of Engineering at
Venmo and VP of Services at
Docker. He was also VP of Technology Operations for the open-source company
Puppet Labs
In computing, Puppet is a software configuration management tool which includes its own declarative language to describe system configuration. It is a model-driven solution that requires limited programming knowledge to use.
Puppet is produced ...
.
Career
Turnbull has been involved in technology and the open-source community since the early 1990s. He has written eleven books on engineering, operations, security, and open-source software:
* Monitoring with Prometheus
* The Packer Book
* The Terraform Book
* The Art of Monitoring
* The
Docker Book
* The Logstash Book
* Pro
Puppet
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(
Apress 2011)
* Pro
Linux System Administration (
Apress 2009)
* Pulling Strings with
Puppet
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(
Apress 2008)
* Pro
Nagios
Nagios Core , formerly known as Nagios, is a free and open-source computer-software application that monitors systems, networks and infrastructure. Nagios offers monitoring and alerting services for servers, switches, applications and services. ...
2.0 (
Apress 2006)
* Hardening
Linux (
Apress 2004)
He has also published numerous articles on Linux and open-source technology.
Free Software involvement
Turnbull is a contributor to
Docker, the open source logging tool
Logstash, Riemann, Prometheus, the
qpsmtpd SMTP daemon, and the
Puppet
A puppet is an object, often resembling a human, animal or Legendary creature, mythical figure, that is animated or manipulated by a person called a puppeteer. The puppeteer uses movements of their hands, arms, or control devices such as rods ...
configuration management tool.
Turnbull was the Treasurer, a member of the papers committee and coordinated the mini-conference program at
linux.conf.au
linux.conf.au (often abbreviated as lca) is Australasia's regional Linux and Open Source conference. It is a roaming conference, held in a different Australian or New Zealand city every year, coordinated by Linux Australia and organised by lo ...
2008.
He is a member of
Linux Australia Linux Australia is the national, Australian Free and Open Source Software Community organisation. It was founded in 1997 and formally incorporated in New South Wales as a non-profit organisation in 1999. Linux Australia aims to represent Australian ...
, including President in 2010 and sitting on the Executive Council in 2008.
New president at Linux Australia
/ref> He has previously also been on the committee of Linux Users of Victoria Linux Users of Victoria ("LUV") is a Linux User Group ("LUG") based in the state of Victoria, Australia.
One of the largest and oldest Linux User Groups in Australia, it was incorporated in 1993 as a not for profit group. It now has close to fift ...
.
References
External links
Blog
Homepage
Riemann
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Living people
Free software programmers
Australian computer specialists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Writers from Brooklyn