Matthew Zito, Chief Scientist
Matthew Zito is an expert in large-scale infrastructures, with extensive experience in designing and deploying some of the world’s largest system, network, and application architectures. Before joining GridApp, Mr. Zito worked at leading information storage company EMC, where he designed and implemented a variety of storage infrastructures and conducted research on deployed security models used within EMC technology.
Prior to joining EMC, Mr. Zito served as Infrastructure Architect at Register.com, where he pioneered the use of centralized management and automation to run large production application infrastructures. As one of the first companies to use Linux end-to-end in the datacenter, Mr. Zito worked closely with a variety of major hardware and software providers to implement Linux support for their products. His expertise in technologies such as Oracle, distributed clustering, and infrastructure performance optimization allowed Register.com’s infrastructure to scale cost-effectively and far beyond its original life expectancy.
Matthew Zito has worked with Linux for almost 10 years, testing, contributing, and advocating Linux as the future of the enterprise datacenter. His code is running in a number of open-source software projects, and he attended New York University.