Tweeks (Thomas Weeks) holds a BS-EET/Telecom degree from Texas A&M, is one of the founding Rackers from 1999, and a big Open Source/Linux advocate. He started as one of the first three Support techs at Rackspace in 1999, created the Technical training department (pre RackU), has worked as a product Engineer, helped launch sister company Server Beach, and more recently helped Rackspace Cloud with tracking uptime statistics and heading up problem analysis/root cause efforts.
In his FOSS/community-life he has been the president of the X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio (XCSSA.ORG) from 1996-2010, has authored several books and magazines, and regularly lectures on Linux and Open Source technologies for IEEE and other technology groups. Tweeks can be reached at tweeks-bio@theweeks.org.
Recent posts by Thomas Weeks:
Rackspace Founder to Speak on Dev Issues
by Thomas Weeks on August 27, 2012
I'm super excited that I've finally talked the Rackspace co-founder and my good friend Dirk Elmendorf into coming out to visit … Read More »
Rocket Community in Blacksburg
by Thomas Weeks on October 10, 2011
When I got started rallying together High Power Rocket geeks in Blacksburg VA, I was doing it for selfish reasons. In … Read More »
Rackspace Rocketeers
by Thomas Weeks on July 7, 2011
So fellow Rackers. What do you tell non-techy people when they ask, "So What Does Rackspace DO?". Do you break … Read More »
Tweeks’ Big Move
by Thomas Weeks on March 9, 2011
Well, it's 9:15pm and we've been on the road around 11hrs now. The kids are getting emotional and the wife … Read More »
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