Florian Leibert
General Partner at Data Collective
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolFlorian Leibert is a seasoned technology founder and investor with 13+ years building distributed systems and cloud-native infrastructure, best known for founding and leading Mesosphere (now D2iQ) through $252M in venture funding. He combines deep hands‑on engineering—contributions to projects like Chronos and Marathon for Mesos orchestration and backend work on Twitter libraries—with strategic operator experience as CEO and now General Partner at 468 Capital. Based in San Francisco, he serves on multiple boards and has backed numerous startups across infrastructure, data and AI, bridging product, engineering and go‑to‑market perspectives. Notably, his background includes building core recommendation and large-scale user-data systems at Twitter and launching Airbnb’s data infrastructure team, reflecting a rare mix of low-level systems expertise and product-driven leadership.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BSc. Computer Science, BSc. Computer Science at International University in Germany
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Github Skills (23)
mesos10
back-end-development10
job-scheduler10
zookeeper10
dcos10
java10
scala10
javas10
http-server10
backend10
devops10
jetty10
build-system9
configuration-management9
release-management9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mesos/chronos
Mar 2013 - Apr 2016
Fault tolerant job scheduler for Mesos which handles dependencies and ISO8601 based schedules
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:186 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Florian's commits primarily focused on setting up and configuring the Chronos job scheduler, particularly around in-process Zookeeper integration and the integration with Mesos. They added support for job URIs, showing a focus on task management and resource allocation. The contributions also involved improvements to the installer scripts and configuration files, indicative of DevOps practices for deployment and setup.
fault-tolerantdependenciesfaultschedulerschedules
d2iq-archive/marathon
Jul 2013 - Apr 2016
Deploy and manage containers (including Docker) on top of Apache Mesos at scale.
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:52 commits, 1 push in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Florian contributed to the core logic and configuration of the Marathon orchestrator. Their work included adding features like the s3-wagon provider, modifying task ID handling, and implementing hostname constraints. They also updated eventing functionality, refactored MarathonSchedulerService and added a task killing capability, indicating involvement in core system operation and configuration. These changes reflect a focus on enhancing Marathon's functionality and stability.
containersdcosdockerapachescale
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