Stephen Cole

Angel Investor

2017

I've invested in over 70 startups, mostly pre-seed. More on me and my portfolio here: cole.gg

Venture Partner

2021

Investing in startups building toward a bitcoin future.

Advisory Board Member

2019 - 2022

Code to Inspire is a non-profit organization committed to improving technical literacy and creating employment for women in Afghanistan by building the country's first computer science school for women. http://codetoinspire.org/

Manager, Cloud DevOps

2015 - 2017

Responsible for the infrastructure powering Nervana's deep learning cloud platform: architecture, automation, service reliability, vendor management, hiring, and leadership. While hands-on and technical throughout, the emphasis in my last year was on people and process, scaling rapidly from a tiny startup to an enterprise business unit in a high-visibility growth area as Nervana was acquired by Intel.

Director, Cloud Operations

2013 - 2015

Member of Cloudscaling's executive staff, managing teams of operations engineers responsible for mission-critical customer clouds, Cloudscaling’s semi-public hosted cloud, as well as internal development and IT systems. My teams’ responsibilities spanned the entire stack, from the hardware in the data center to the virtualized services on top. Played an integral part in the due diligence, acquisition, and subsequent integration processes as Cloudscaling was acquired by EMC.

Manager, Cloud Operations

2012 - 2013

Managed a small team of engineers in a small and fast-paced startup. Focused on leadership, hiring, technical mentorship, and enhancing processes to enable growth.

Cloud Operations Engineer

2012 - 2012

Extracted business value from stacks of metal. Gained various levels of hands-on familiarity with technologies including... openstack, linux, git, routing, switching, x86 hardware, zfs, xfs, tcp/ip, haproxy, chef, aws, gce, raid, rackspace, rightscale, scalr, python, bash, jira, confluence, ospf, mlag, lacp, bgp, ecmp, dns, ipsec, openvpn, apache, mysql, galera, iproute2, cobbler, ipmi, soap, rest, network security, kvm, nagios, ganglia, collectd, apache, google apps

Systems Engineer

2011 - 2012

A lead systems engineer in eBay’s Site Engineering Center (SEC) supporting many thousands of physical servers in production. Performed technical incident and crisis management in an environment in which downtime was measured in seconds. Experienced first-hand the challenges of operating successfully at large scale.

Change and Problem Manager

2009 - 2011

Associate Systems Engineer

2008 - 2009

Network Security Analyst

2007 - 2008