Florian Leibert

Creating the datacenter computer. Rethinking virtualization, distributed computing and datacenter automation.

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Data collective invests and advises early-stage companies in the big data space. Investors in Kaggle, Parse, Citus Data, TightDB, Freshplum, Mixrank, MongoHQ, LendUp, Firebase, etc.

Built out the data infrastructure team. Created infrastructure for logging, storage and retrieval of data (> TB scale). Author of chronos (https://github.com/airbnb/chronos). Helped to make the company more data driven by building systems and tools for the analytics and finance teams.

Built the distributed user search product as part of the research team. (Paper: Automatic Management of Partitioned, Replicated Search Services, SoCC 2011). Created a system that computes and stores (> TB scale) derived user-data for most products in discovery. Lead the development of Twitter's recommendation algorithm based on web-visits, serving thousands of reqs/sec and the core recommendation algorithms.(http://blog.twitter.com/2012/05/new-tailored-suggestions-for-you-to.html

Design & implementation of a Hadoop based collaborative filter for behavioral targeting.

R&D, core infrastructure development, natural language processing / semantic analysis

Nebraska - Lincoln