Hi, I'm Darren Shepherd, creator of Stampede. https://www.linkedin.com/in/darrensshepherd I currently work at Citrix with my primary responsibility being an architect of Apache CloudStack. In the past I've deployed clouds based on CloudStack and OpenStack, and written two proprietary IaaS systems from scratch. Stampede is now my third IaaS system I've written from scratch and I'm quite proud that this time it's all open source. For whatever reason, I love infrastructure orchestration and writing these systems is what I've done full time for about the last 5 years.