Steffen manages the Compute and Storage Infrastructure teams at Uber. He spends his time thinking about efficiently distributing Compute jobs across Uber's data centers and making storage systems highly reliable and horizontally scalable, while keeping a growing team healthy and happy. Prior to Uber, Steffen worked at VMware, Sun Microsystems, several startups, and wrote lots of garbage collector code, including the first several versions of Sun’s JVM. Steffen holds an MS in Computer Science from Aarhus University, Denmark.

Lasse is an engineer on the Compute Platform team where he has worked on the UI for the μDeploy system since its inception. He loves the challenges of building interfaces that make large distributed systems safe and easy to use for his engineering colleagues. Before joining Uber, Lasse worked at VMware on the vSphere and vCloud products. He holds an MS in Information Studies from Aarhus University, Denmark.