Eric Johnson, or “E. J.” as he is better known, is the software/product development manager for Rackspace’s Cloud Files storage system. His after-hours job is working with and managing the senior engineers within Racklabs, Rackspace’s Research and Development group.
For the last 15 years, E. J. has worked solely with open source technologies in various roles, including Unix system administration, networking, DBA, and software development. He has performed these functions in the airline and aerospace industries. Over the years, he has contributed his time to the open source community by supplying patches for SSH, being a package maintainer for Arch Linux, and authoring technical guides on DNS/Bind.
E. J. holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and an M.S. in computer science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. He currently lives in San Antonio, Texas, with his wife, Julie, son Tate, and a second son due in April 2009.
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