Drew Raines Email & Phone Number

Nashville, TN, US

Redwood City, California, US

As Equinix refines its digital portfolio, I took the opportunity to step back and focus on a part of the business that needs specific attention. We have mission critical services that need to evolve to serve customers, and I want it to go faster. Through my tenure, while trying to build new things, we've seen places where we could enforce standard.

Redwood City, California, US

Equinix is the neutral Internet partner and the largest provider of digital infrastructure in the world. We connect 10k enterprises through 3k networks in our 250+ data centers in 70 markets around the world. 70-80% of the Internet's traffic travels through our buildings. In fact, in April 2023 we passed a significant milestone of 30 Tbps of peak traffic.

Redwood City, California, US

Provided executive leadership during critical transition, managing $160MM Edge Infrastructure portfolio (Equinix Metal, Cloud Adjacent Storage, Network Edge) and 300+ product managers, engineers, and program managers. Collaborated cross-functionally with Sales, Marketing, Ops, Support, and Finance to develop annual plans and refine our digital strategy.

San Francisco, California, US

To align on our focus as company committed to our customers' needs, we consolidated our two primary infrastructure organizations under unified leadership. I still functioned as a director, but with a broader influence over all of Elastic's compute, storage, networking, and Kubernetes platforms. I orchestrated a re-org across 30- and 50-person teams to.

San Francisco, California, US

The years of biggest growth. I was responsible for SaaS behind our on-prem success and in the critical path of our $500M+ revenue. I was closely involved in growing our engineering organization from 5 to 1,000, onboarding 10 acquisitions, bringing our company through IPO, while leading an organization of 20+ developers and managers across four.

San Francisco, California, US

While we were stabilizing and scaling the Sonian search infrastructure (see below), the Elasticsearch community was exploding. We were contributing both code and advice. We also supported Shay (its creator) financially, which eventually helped him bootstrap a company with three other open-source giants (Simon Willnauer, Uri Boness, Steven Schuurman). They.

Waltham, Massachusetts, US

Sonian (now part of Barracuda) was an early AWS-based, Amazon-backed, e-discovery startup. Actually AWS was the only cloud back then. EC2 was even pretty new. I joined a backend team that built the collection and search infrastructure. Tim Dysinger, then CTO, recognized the competitive advantage Clojure was turning into, so he started hiring developers in.

US

NotifyMD was an innovative company in healthcare that grew out of an answering service appliance. When I joined they had pivoted to call centers staffed with amazing folks that would be the first line of communications for patients.My role, from HQ, supported the SaaS operations within these call centers, providing data to decision makers. My main.

An early Facebook app that turned viral and had a crazy amount of traffic. Was a fun scaling challenge for a few months that led to an acquisition by RockYou.Thank you Wade Roberts for the opportunity!

Cabedge was a premiere web marketing company. Their designs were some of the best in the industry. Working with folks like Matt Reed, Blake Allen, Seth Buntin, Lemmie Stone, Chris Blanz, was a treat to say the least.I did the usual web stuff. Wrote shopping carts, sliced & diced PSDs into CSS/HTML, JavaScript, Rails, Django. Also managed various elements.

Nashville, Tennessee, US

Moved over to the central university IT dept to work on larger scale and build on my newfound love of administering internet email. We had a 60,000-account sendmail deployment into which I got to integrate ProofPoint spam filtering.Worked with incredible folks like Eric Hall, Denny Burk, Jason Gilbreath, Eddie Sananikone, and Dan Nanto (who I hope will.

Nashville, Tennessee, US

The wee hours of settling with the fact that I wouldn't pursue a music career. I had experience with Unix from working in the computing center at Virginia Tech, which was my favorite part. My wife was working in Vanderbilt Medical Center. Not as a doctor. As a barista. That's right, she was a storied employee for the local, campus-wide Suzie's Espresso.