DeVaris Brown
CEO & Co-Founder @ Meroxa(We're Hiring) Thinker. Builder. Hustler. Investor.
Oakland, California
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$10,000.00Max Investment:
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2024
Board Member
2024
2022
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2022
2020
CEO and Co-Founder
2020
Enabling teams of any size and expertise to build and leverage real time data infrastructure in minutes not months.
2021 - 2024
Board Member
2021 - 2024
Our mission at I4G is to increase the earning power of Africans by training 1,000,000 tech talents in Africa and connecting them to 5,000 jobs. We are doing this in three core ways: Micro-scholarships, Technical Training, and Talent Placement. Please donate: https://ingressive.org/i4g-donations/
2019 - 2020
Product Manager Lead
2019 - 2020
First platform engineering PM hire. Tasked with developing a strategy and execution to help Twitter engineers 5X their innovation velocity. Owned migrations, observability, language libraries, and anything else to help the company ship high quality features faster.
Guest Lecturer
2020 - 2020
Stanford community college lecturer on designing safe spaces for black and brown folks.
2020 - 2020
Angel Track Investor
2020 - 2020
2015 - 2020
Chief Executive Officer
2015 - 2020
Floodgate Academy is an apprenticeship program designed to solve the lack of diversity in the technology industry by creating a pipeline of technically proficient developer operations engineers from underrepresented communities. Through challenging curriculum based on real world scenarios and partnering with forward thinking technical organizations, Floodgate will provide students with an unmatched experience that builds a proper foundation for a long lasting career in tech.
2017 - 2019
Director of Product Management
2017 - 2019
Creating better ways for developers to build, deploy, manage, and scale their applications.
2016 - 2017
CTO & Co-Founder
2016 - 2017