Theo Schlossnagle

Theo Schlossnagle is a serial entrepreneur, software engineer, and investor who has spent three decades pushing the edges of distributed systems and scalable infrastructure. Founder of OmniTI (1997), Circonus (2010), and General Partner at L42 Ventures, he is a Distinguished Member of the ACM, an IEEE member, co-chair of ACM's Queue Magazine, and the author of 'Scalable Internet Architectures'. Beyond software, he runs a butcher shop in Maryland, maintains a farm retreat in West Virginia, and has left Twitter for greener (and more federated) social pastures.