Thomas A. Limoncelli

Tom is an internationally recognized author, speaker, and system administrator. His best known books include Time Management for System Administrators (O'Reilly) and The Practice of System and Network Administration (Addison-Wesley). In 2005 he shared the SAGE Outstanding Achievement Award with Christine. While at Google he was an SRE for projects such as the web crawler, Blog Search, office IT deployments and The Ganeti project (http://code.google.com/p/ganeti).

He works in New York City at Stack Exchange, home of ServerFault.com and StackOverflow.com. Previously he's worked at small and large companies including Google, Bell Labs / Lucent, AT&T. He blogs at http://EverythingSysadmin.com

Outside of work Tom spent years doing grass-roots civil-rights activism both nationally and in his home state of New Jersey.