Major Hayden builds OpenStack clouds as a Principal Architect at Rackspace. Major focuses on improving information security in OpenStack deployments. He holds multiple Red Hat and GIAC certifications. He has written extensively about securing virtualized Linux environments. Outside of OpenStack, Major contributes to several open source projects including dracut, systemd, and Ansible. Major enjoys writing on his personal blog, major.io, and he talks about technical topics on Twitter as @majorhayden.