Derek Collison

Founder

Miami, Florida, United States34 yrs 5 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Pioneered secure messaging with NATS.io.
Co-founded AJAX APIs group at Google.
Designed CloudFoundry, the first open-source enterprise PaaS.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a pioneer in cloud computing and distributed systems.

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Distributed SystemsCloud ComputingEnterprise SoftwareScalabilitySystem ArchitectureBig DataSoftware DevelopmentSoftware EngineeringProduct ManagementSOAEnterprise ArchitectureStart-upsAgile MethodologiesWeb ApplicationsArchitecture

About

Derek Collison is a 30 year industry veteran, entrepreneur, and pioneer in secure and large-scale distributed systems and cloud computing. He helped change the way financial, transportation, and logistics systems fundamentally worked while spending over a decade at TIBCO, designing systems that still power much of those industries today. At Google, Derek co-founded the AJAX APIs group and created the largest CDN for popular javascript libraries, identifying the need for easy and secure access to Google’s services without the need for additional servers. During his time at VMWare, Derek designed and architected CloudFoundry, the first open-source enterprise PaaS. He then founded Apcera, a company designed to drive security and policy into easy to use platform technologies. After the successful sale of Apcera to Ericsson, Derek took the messaging technology he designed to power the CloudFoundry and Apcera systems, NATS.io, and created Synadia. Synadia is pioneering secure and global messaging as a digital utility to help drive security and powerful communication and collaboration into IoT, edge, and cloud computing systems. He is also a technology futurist around Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, IOT and Cloud Computing.

Experience

Ronald regan ucla medical center

Board Member

Oct 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 5 mos

Covaxx

Investor

Aug 2020 – Mar 2021 · 7 mos

Synadia communications inc.

Founder & CEO

Dec 2017 – Present · 8 yrs 3 mos · Los Angeles, California, United States

Prodea systems

Investor

Mar 2017 – May 2022 · 5 yrs 2 mos

Savonix, inc.

Investor

Dec 2016 – Apr 2021 · 4 yrs 4 mos

Vicarious ai

Investor

Mar 2016 – Nov 2023 · 7 yrs 8 mos

http://www.vicarious.com/investors.html

Xperiel

Investor

Feb 2016 – Present · 10 yrs 1 mo

Cloud native computing foundation

Member Board of Directors

Jan 2016 – Jul 2017 · 1 yr 6 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation will create and drive the adoption of a new set of common container technologies informed by technical merit and end user value, and inspired by Internet-scale computing.

Xprize

Innovation Board Member

Apr 2015 – Oct 2023 · 8 yrs 6 mos · Culver City, CA

An XPRIZE is a highly leveraged, incentivized prize competition that pushes the limits of what’s possible to change the world for the better.
It captures the world’s imagination and inspires others to reach for similar goals, spurring innovation and accelerating the rate of positive change.

Heavybit industries

Investor

Mar 2013 – Present · 13 yrs

Rakuten

Technical Fellow

Jul 2012 – Dec 2014 · 2 yrs 5 mos

Apcera

Founder & CEO

Mar 2012 – Dec 2017 · 5 yrs 9 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

The Apcera trusted cloud platform is a highly secure, policy-driven platform for cloud-native applications and micro-services—as well as legacy applications. Apcera lets Developers and Operations teams use any modern tool or software they want while giving IT the assurance that their infrastructure is safe and secure.
With Apcera, companies can innovate at speed with full confidence and trust.
Based in downtown San Francisco, CA, and led by CEO Derek Collison, Apcera was initially funded by Andreessen Horowitz, Kleiner Perkins, and True Ventures among others, and received a deep strategic investment from the Swedish technology giant, Ericsson in 2014.

Vmware

CTO, Chief Architect Cloud Application Platforms

Aug 2009 – Feb 2012 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Co-founded the cloud computing group and designed and architected Cloud Foundry.
http://www.cloudfoundry.org
http://www.cloudfoundry.com

Google inc.

Technical Director

Oct 2003 – Aug 2010 · 6 yrs 10 mos · Mountain View, CA

Co-founded the AJAX APIs effort which formed the basis for https://developers.google.com. Pioneered the idea of Google hosting the world's most popular Javascript libraries on Google servers for better cache consistency; https://developers.google.com/speed/libraries/devguide.