John Ptacek is a Cloud Architect at Breakthrough Fuel, headquartered in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and a US Venture company. He graduated undergraduate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a degree in Applied Mathematics, Engineering and Physics and received a Masters degree in Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics from Madison. He grew up reading at the library in his hometown of Fontana, WI and his children grew up reading at the Appleton Public Library. He is grateful for the role libraries have played in the communities he has been part of.