David Power, CTO of vScaler, specialises in developing industry leading HPC solutions along with leading teams that specialise in deployments and integrations. Having started his HPC career in research where studied Distributed Genetic Algorithms (DGAs) and grammatical evolution, David has since spent over 15 years working on large-scale HPC systems with a history of bringing award-winning products to market. A fan of open source technology from the outset, David selected OpenStack as the perfect platform to build the vScaler cloud platform on, and many of his current endeavours involve building OpenStack compliant cloud-based solutions that build on the practises and optimisations of HPC.