Headquartered in Southern California, Petta Technology provides comprehensive infrastructure management services and real world solutions to business problems. Through both custom development and 24x7 support, we optimize IT systems and then provide the resources to maintain world-class service from those systems.

Petta Technology is unique in our willingness and capability to manage your entire infrastructure when, where, and how it best meets your needs. We service your systems at your existing colocation/data centers, or in your workplace. Our experience running some of the most complex database-backed Web applications on the Internet allows our clients to focus their resources on their core business rather than juggling day-to-day infrastructure issues.

Petta Technology was founded in June of 2003 and has clients ranging from funded startup companies to the Fortune 500. Our business has doubled every year based on providing exceptional service to existing clients and on forming new relationships. If you are interested in working with Petta Technology, please contact us.

Mission Statement

To provide our customers with outstanding information technology services that leverage the benefits of open source software and commodity computing. Also, to be active contributors to the Open Source community.

Management Team

Damon Petta - Founder

Damon has more than a decade of expertise designing and maintaining enterprise UNIX systems. He has managed large UNIX installations and participated in global client-server UNIX rollouts, and relocations, supporting open source and corporate technologies. Most recently, Damon Petta was an Infrastructure Architect for Overture Services Inc. Damon lead design and implementations efforts to reduce costs in an international Solaris to Linux migration. Damon also developed an enterprise software deployment system for open source applications.

To learn more about Damon, read his resume ( PDF).

Robert Johnson - Founder

Rob, starting in his Cal Tech dorm room and using open-source software, built (with 1 partner) the e-commerce platform which operated the eToys.com website through its largest business rush, Christmas 1999, in which the company brought in $100M in sales in the 4th quarter. He went on to manage the .tv domain space, putting his skills in programming and systems design to further use. Now Rob works with Petta Technology, doing system architecture design and development for Open Source projects.

To learn more about Robert, read his resume ( PDF).

Mark Chodos - Founder

Mark got his start in computing while living on a kibbutz in Israel, where he implemented an on-line accounting system on a PDP 11/73 and a computerized irrigation control system for the kibbutz's 1000 acres of irrigated fields. He has over 15 years of industry experience on Unix platorms, starting with DEC Ultrix on a MicroVAX II. In the early 1990s, as Manager of Information Systems at NDC Systems, he moved the company from a proprietary software development platform to an Open Source solution using GNU Emacs, Gnu C compilers, and RCS source code control.

To learn more about Mark, read his resume ( PDF).