Joe Arnold

Joe Arnold is co-founder and CEO of SwiftStack, a leading provider of object storage software. An innovator in cloud-computing infrastructure, Joe has been examining, addressing, and building solutions that help move today's cloud reality forward when it comes to speed, scale, and power. He built one of the first widely-used cloud platforms-as-a-service (PaaS) on top of Amazon Web Services at Engine Yard, managed the first public OpenStack launch of Swift after its release as an open source...See more

Joe Arnold is co-founder and CEO of SwiftStack, a leading provider of object storage software. An innovator in cloud-computing infrastructure, Joe has been examining, addressing, and building solutions that help move today's cloud reality forward when it comes to speed, scale, and power. He built one of the first widely-used cloud platforms-as-a-service (PaaS) on top of Amazon Web Services at Engine Yard, managed the first public OpenStack launch of Swift after its release as an open source project. He has subsequently deployed multiple large-scale cloud storage systems. While at Engine Yard, he additionally oversaw the development of their Ruby on Rails deployment platform, AppCloud and managing the open source efforts of Rails 3, JRuby and Rubinius. Joe has been active in the OpenStack community since 2010. He has also authored a popular book on yo-yo techniques called "From Beginner to Spinner. See less