Tim Ellis has been working in Linux-based OSS-stack large-scale high-volume database environments since 2000. Friendster, Digg, Mozilla, StumbleUpon, and Riot Games, are among his employers.

He's been doing Opsdev deployment methodologies since before Opsdev was a household word. He began administering clusters of thousands of databases in 1998, employing self-made continuous-deployment and configuration management systems.