Brian “bex” Exelbierd is happiest debating the finer points of international taxation over a good coffee. An American expat in Brno, Czech Republic, he balances life as a Linux strategist, home automation tinkerer, and dad. By day he shapes how Microsoft Azure participates in upstream Linux. He spent the previous decade doing similar work at Red Hat. When not reading too much long-form journalism, he writes glue code to connect things that were never meant to be connected.