Who is Zac Witte?

Zac fits right in with the midventures team. Surround by eccentric, tech-savvy, and highly passionate staff members, his love of technology and experience in nearly every area of computer engineering melds perfectly in an environment that was designed to foster entrepreneurial growth. Zac earned his undergraduate degree in computer sciences from the University of Wisconsin at Madison where he focused on artificial intelligence and robotics. Mr. Witte’s past work includes extensive back-end infrastructure engineering at PEAK6 / OptionsHouse, a Chicago-based hedge fund and options brokerage firm. Zac demonstrates superior knowledge and passion of system architectures, high-availability configurations, and custom optimizations in latency / reliability critical environments, among other things. Zac has worked with nearly every significant development platform in his 7 year web-engineering tenure, and continues to keep his thumb on all things cutting edge. In his personal time, Zac has a tendency to climb mountain peaks, explore the world’s underground art scene, and listen to his impressive collection of stellar electronica. Zac is yearning for the opportunity to open up a London branch.