Dermot Tynan is a master-level software engineer at Hewlett Packard, working as a Consulting Principal for the OpenStack Services group.

Dermot has over thirty years experience, working in networking, the UNIX kernel, firewalls, Internet security, and embedded systems. He was the architect of the AltaVista firewall, technical director of security products for AltaVista and Digital Equipment Corporation, former CEO/CTO of anti-spam startup Copperfasten/SpamTitan, and was head of technical services for the IE Domain Registry, managing the .ie domain.