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Devaris Brown

Founder of Meroxa

Oakland, California

Overview 

DeVaris Brown is the CEO and Co-Founder of Meroxa, a tech startup based in Oakland, California. With a background in product management and software development, he has held leadership roles at Twitter and Heroku, and has invested in companies like ByteChek at various stages of growth. Highlights of his career include serving as the CTO & Co-Founder of Super Heroic™ and as a Director of Product Management at Heroku, showcasing his expertise in leading tech companies and driving product development. Currently, as the CEO of Meroxa, he continues to demonstrate his strategic vision and entrepreneurial skills in the tech industry.

Work Experience 

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  • Board Member

    2024 - Current

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YPO

  • Member

    2022

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Meroxa

  • CEO and Co-Founder

    2020

    Enabling teams of any size and expertise to build and leverage real time data infrastructure in minutes not months.

Meroxa is a real-time data platform as a service that enables customers at any level of expertise to build pipelines in minutes.

Raised $19,100,000.00 from Root Ventures, Drive Capital, Amplify Partners and Hustle Fund.

meroxa.com
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Ingressive For Good

  • 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/

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Twitter

  • 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.

X is a social networking platform that allows its users to send and read microblogs.

Raised $12,869,191,511.00 from Greenlight Capital, Binance, Litani Ventures, Qatar Investment Authority, Qatar Holding, The Lawrence J. Ellison Revocable Trust, Fidelity, Alwaleed Bin Talal, Sequoia Capital and Vy Capital.

twitter.com
HP

Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford ( d.school )

  • Guest Lecturer

    2020 - 2020

    Stanford community college lecturer on designing safe spaces for black and brown folks.

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First Round Capital

  • Angel Track Investor

    2020 - 2020

First Round Angel Track is a community of operators and founders looking to develop their skills and identities as early-stage investors.

angeltrack.firstround.com
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Floodgate Academy

  • 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.

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Heroku

  • Director of Product Management

    2017 - 2019

    Creating better ways for developers to build, deploy, manage, and scale their applications.

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Super Heroic™

  • CTO & Co-Founder

    2016 - 2017

Education 

Investments 

ByteChek

Seed

Total funding: $3M

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