Eco serves as the technical liason to the Gluster community on Red Hat's  Open Source and Standards Team. Prior to the company's acquisition by  Red Hat in 2011, he was Jack of All Trades, Master of Customer Happiness  at Gluster, Inc. Eco's specialities include DevOps, virtualization and phenomenal user support. He grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and  can still be found there, frequently hugging trees - that is when he is not hugging servers.