Rob Hirschfeld

Rob Hirschfeld is the CEO and founder of RackN, an Austin-based start-up that develops software to help automate data centers, which they call Digital Rebar.

This platform helps connect all the different pieces and tools that people use to manage infrastructure into workflow pipelines through seamless multi-component automation across the different pieces and parts needed to bring up IT systems, platforms and applications.

Rob has a background in Scale Computing, Mechanical and Systems Engineering, and specializes in large-scale complex systems that are integrated with the physical environment.

He has founded companies and been in the cloud and infrastructure space for nearly 25 years, and has done everything from building the first Clouds using ESXi betas to serving four terms on the OpenStack Foundation Board.