After a career spent building systems at multiple fortune 500 companies and across industries including e-commerce, healthcare, financial services, and SaaS; Robert currently spends his days as CEO of OmniTI, a technical services firm focused on providing web application development and infrastructure management at scale. A long time open source contributor and author, he speaks at conferences worldwide on topics such as Open Source, databases, and managing operations at scale. He occasionally blogs at http://xzilla.net.