# Sebastian Stadil

> Sebastian Stadil is the founder and CEO of Scalr and a cofounder of OpenTofu. His work spans cloud infrastructure automation, developer communities, technical writing, and open source governance. Based in Seattle, he also founded the Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Group and has served as a guest lecturer at Carnegie Mellon University.

- **Role:** Founder and CEO at Scalr
- **Organizations:** Scalr, OpenTofu, Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Group, Carnegie Mellon University, Google Cloud Advisory Board
- **Education:** Lycée Thiers
- **Known for:** Founded Scalr and serves as its CEO., Cofounded OpenTofu and helped organize its community., Founded the Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Group.

## Career timeline

- **1999** — Dates the original scaling problem to a shared hosting server overwhelmed by Slashdot traffic.
- **2008-04** — Scalr released to the community under the GPL, according to his early High Scalability interview.
- **2013** — Spoke at QCon San Francisco about architecting organizations for the cloud and published Google Compute Engine benchmarks.
- **2014** — Discussed the Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Group, Google cloud advisory work, and Carnegie Mellon lecturing in public interviews.
- **2016-01** — OpenView announced leading Scalr’s $7.35 million Series A.
- **2023-09** — Named a core OpenTofu contributor in the Linux Foundation launch announcement.
- **2024-03** — Co-chaired the inaugural OpenTofu Day at KubeCon Europe in Paris.
- **2026-10** — Published an invitation to OpenTofu Day in Salt Lake City on November 9, 2026.

## Achievements

- Founded Scalr and serves as its CEO.
- Cofounded OpenTofu and helped organize its community.
- Founded the Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Group.
- Built Scalr through its OpenView-led $7.35 million Series A in 2016.
- Served as a guest lecturer at Carnegie Mellon University.

## Latest updates

- **2026-10** — As OpenTofu Day chair, published a CNCF post announcing the November 9, 2026 Salt Lake City event and describing the shift toward production operations and platform-building questions.
- **2026-03** — Authored the CNCF OpenTofu Day Europe 2026 event deep dive as program chair.

## Links

- Website: http://blog.stadil.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sstadil
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/sebastianstadil
- GitHub: https://github.com/SebastianStadil
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sebastian.stadil

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