Jeremy Edberg – Mentor

Jeremy is currently the Information Cowboy (aka. Operations Manager) for reddit.com, an online community for sharing and discussing interesting things on the internet that was a Y-Combinator startup acquired in 2006.

Today, Jeremy is responsible for an Amazon EC2-based platform that relies on cutting-edge storage technologies and handles over 300 million pageviews a month. A noted expert on high-performance IT operations and social media platforms, Jeremy has spent 15 years in technology: 4 in operations, 3 in security, 4 in consulting, and 4 in academic computing. When working for Sendmail, he helped administer the most bleeding edge Sendmail server on the internet; at eBay he helped protect people from phishing and scams, created patent-pending fraud detection software, and evaluated hardware for the eBay platform; and at UC Berkeley, he wired up large portions of the dorms for internet, back before every college student in America had a net drop in their room.

Jeremy has keynoted at conferences such as PyCon and Cloud Connect. He holds a Cognitive Science degree from UC Berkeley.