David K. Rensin

David K. Rensin (1972-) is an American technology entrepreneur, computer scientist, and best-selling author based in Austin, TX. He writes on a wide range of technical topics from advanced data management to best practices for building distributed systems and companies.

Drawing on his experience founding and leading companies, helping to take them public, and having them acquired, Mr. Rensin writes from the perspective of a practitioner who has seen nearly all of the good, bad, and ugly that exists in the technology space.

(If you meet him, ask him about the time he told Steve Jobs that the original iPhone was "destined to fail" -- a conversation which went as well as you might imagine.)

He is currently a Distinguished Engineer at Google - working for Alphabet's CFO as a technical advisor in the areas of capital allocation, efficiency, and long-term technical strategy.