Andi Abes is a 15 year veteran software engineer, currently working at Dell on the OpenStack and Crowbar delivery teams.  He is also the founder of the Boston OpenStack Users Group (#OSBOS) and visionary behind Dell's OpenStack deploy days.  On the OpenStack and Crowbar teams, Andi has been involved in every facet of DevOps deployment from bios configuration to Swift ring topology design.  He is a passionate and out spoken believer in the benefits of good design in coding!  You can read more about Andi on his blog (http://www.foggysoftware.com/) or on twitter (@a_abes).