Mark McLoughlin is a well-known figure in the OpenStack world, having been identified as the leading code committer to the project in 2013. McLouglin has recently shifted his in-job responsibility away from just code to product development. He has been with Red Hat for eight years now, originally working on the GNOME desktop before working on all things virtualization – i.e. xen, kvm, qemu, libvirt and RHEV.