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Stephen Cole
Venture Partner at Trammell Venture Partners
Phoenix, Arizona
Overview
Stephen Cole is a Venture Partner at Trammell Venture Partners, with a background in cloud computing and cryptocurrency. He has made significant investments in various companies, including Swan Bitcoin and Samourai Wallet, focusing on Web3/Crypto and Web3/Blockchain sectors.
With a career spanning roles at Nervana Systems and Cloudscaling, Stephen has demonstrated strong leadership in managing cloud operations and devOps teams, leading to successful acquisitions by industry giants like Intel and EMC.
Work Experience
Angel Investor
2017 - Current
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.
Trammell Venture Partners (TVP) is an Austin-based venture capital firm that invests in early-stage Bitcoin and Lightning Network startups.
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
EBay Ventures invests in disruptive companies that are revolutionizing the commerce landscape.
Associate Systems Engineer
2008 - 2009
Network Security Analyst
2007 - 2008
Leggett & Plat, which pioneered sleep technology when it introduced its bedspring more than 125 years ago.