DeVaris Brown
Founder of Meroxa
DeVaris Brown
Founder of Meroxa
Oakland, California
Overview
Work Experience
Board Member
2024 - Current
Member
2022
CEO and Co-Founder
2020
Enabling teams of any size and expertise to build and leverage real time data infrastructure in minutes not months.
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/
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.
Angel Track Investor
2020 - 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.
Director of Product Management
2017 - 2019
Creating better ways for developers to build, deploy, manage, and scale their applications.
CTO & Co-Founder
2016 - 2017
Education
B.S.
2002 - 2006