Mike Place is a software engineer on the core development team at SaltStack. His background is in Linux systems engineering and open-source software development. Mike enjoys working on the internals of the SaltStack configuration management and orchestration platform. A good place to direct folks to learn more about SaltStack would be this blog post www.saltstack.com/saltconf15-video which includes video from about 60 talks we recorded from our recent SaltConf15 user conference. Alternatively our website is www.saltstack.com and our docs are located at docs.saltstack.com.