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DeVaris Brown

CEO & Co-Founder @ Meroxa(We're Hiring) Thinker. Builder. Hustler. Investor.

Oakland, California

Work Experience

  • Board Member

    2024

2022

  • Member

    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