About the Author - Kent Langley's Blog on Cloud Computing, Scalability, and Operations

Kent Langley

Overview

Currently I work for nScaled, Inc. as Founder and CTO. Also, I author the blog ProductionScale.com where I talk about what's on my mind with Technology, On-Demand Computing, Cloud Computing, and other IT Management related issues.

Goal

Leverage technology effectively for real business economic benefit.

Recently

being updated since move to start nScaled...

Some Recent Project Details

Building a Technology Operations Team and Business Services Line for SolutionSetRe-Architect community.abcfamily.go.com to improve capacity from 200 requests per second to 1000 requests per second on DrupalRe-Architect the CNN site theforum.cnn.com from 1000 queries per second to 20,000 queries per second on Django in just 5 days
Helping many facebook gaming applications ramp up quickly
Help Autodesk implement a very complex single sign-on intitiative
Re-Architect and re-deploy Autodesk's multi-tentant community platform
A major server consolidation project for Autodesk

You can see what I'm up to via several channels:

This Blog > www.productionscale.com

LinkedIN > LinkedIN public profile.

Twitter > www.twitter.com/kentlangley

FriendFeed > http://friendfeed.com/kentlangley

My Current Work > http://www.joyent.com

or, you can call me using the call me using the tool below.

Work History Time Line

2009-Now nScaled, Inc. | LegalCloud.net - CTO and Founder, Cloud Computing Services and Consulting and Virtualization and Data Center Service for Law Firms

2008-2009 Joyent - Cloud Computing - Sr. Director, Sales Engineering in charge of professional services
2007-2008 SolutionSet - Technology Services Agency - Technical Director in charge of IT and Systems Consulting
2006-2007 Snapp Gardens - Construction - Managing Partner in charge of Sales, Marketing, and Business Operations
2003-2006 Autodesk - Software Developer - Sr. Manager in charge of technology operations
2001-2003 CNET - Technology Publishing - Manager in charge of technology operations
1999-2001 TechRepublic - Technology Publishing - Manager of technology operations
1997-1999 Langley Technologies - Technology Services - Owner, Small company IT Outsourcing Provider
1996-1997 Packaging Unlimited - Packaging and Marketing - General Technologist
1992-1996 UPS - Shipping Industry - Student/Part-Time Supervisor

1990-1992 Student Yielding Bachelors Degree in Business

I am reachable via:

http://www.twitter.com/kentlangley

http://www.linkedin.com/in/kentlangley

The contact form on this blog

or, you can call me using the call me tool below.