James Turnbull

James Turnbull is an Australian free software and open source author, security specialist, and software developer. He lives in Brooklyn, New York where he is co-chair of the Velocity conference and an advisor at Access Now. Prior to that he was CTO at Kickstarter, VP of Engineering at Venmo.^[1] He was also VP of Technology Operations for the open source company Puppet Labs.^[2]

Career

Turnbull has been involved in technology and the open source community since the early 1990s. He has written eight books on Engineering, Operations, security and open source software:

• The Art of Monitoring^[3]
• The Docker Book^[4]
• The Logstash Book^[5]
• Pro Puppet (Apress 2011)^[6]
• Pro Linux System Administration (Apress 2009)^[7]
• Pulling Strings with Puppet (Apress 2008)^[8]
• Pro Nagios 2.0 (Apress 2006)^[9]
• Hardening Linux (Apress 2004)^[10]

He has also published numerous articles on Linux and open source technology.^[11]

Free Software involvement

Turnbull is a contributor to Docker, the open source logging tool Logstash,^[12] Riemann, the qpsmtpd SMTP daemon, the Puppet configuration management tool, and the Facter system inventory tool.

Turnbull was the Treasurer, member of the papers committee, and coordinated the mini-conference program at linux.conf.au 2008.^[13]

He is a member of Linux Australia, including being President in 2010 and sitting on the Executive Council in 2008.^[14] He has previously also been on the committee of Linux Users of Victoria.

References

External links

• Blog
• Homepage
• Apress
• qpsmtpd - Develooper LLC
• Puppet
• Facter