Grant McWilliams

Grant McWilliams is a computer consultant, public speaker, technical writer, professor and software developer specializing in Linux and Open Source. He's been a college professor for 20 years teaching at Bellevue College, Shoreline Community College and Edmonds Community College. He's also provided custom training and curriculum for Boeing, Panasonic, Thales and many other fortune 500 corporations. His training focuses entirely on open source and Linux technologies. His consulting company - Sound Linux Training and Consulting has been in business for 26 years in various forms and specializes in creating custom solutions using open source technologies. These have included Linux based in-flight entertainment systems, massively scaled Xen hypervisor near-embedded platforms as well as cloud, virtual and physical security scanning and penetration testing appliances. His public speaking engagements include Linuxcon (New Orleans 2013), Xen User Summit (NYC 2014) and LinuxFest Northwest (Bellingham WA 2004-2011). His technical writing/editing achievements have included writing documentation and manpages for Citrix Xenserver via the Xenapi Admin Project and technical editor for No Starch Press on the book Wicked Cool Shell Scripts. Specialties: Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Xen Cloud Platform/Xenserver, Linux, BASH, Saltstack, SELinux, PHP, Python, System Design, Technical writing, curriculum creation, Instructor Led Training