Florian Leibert established the high tech software company Mesosphere, Inc., in San Francisco, California, in 2013. A 15-year veteran of the software engineering industry, he continues to head the company in the position of chief executive officer. Mesosphere operates using the open source technology, Apache Mesos, behind some of the Internet’s largest websites, including Twitter, Netflix, and Airbnb. Florian Leibert developed Chronos, a Mesos framework, during his time as a software engineer at Airbnb. He has additionally worked as a tech lead and engineer with Twitter.

Flo Leibert studied computer science at an international university in Bruchsal, Germany, achieving a bachelor of science. During his time at the university he took part in a team competition hosted by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), winning the local stage of the event and progressing to the European ACM programming challenge. He additionally participated in the 2005 Model United Nations event. Mr. Leibert's interests outside of technology and software design include river rafting and cycling.