After selling Iron.io, Oracle acquired our IronFunctions project and engineering team in order to launch the Fn Project and subsequent downstream managed service, Oracle Functions. After the serverless group was established, I joined the Java Platform Group to build out the developer relations and Java in Education groups.

I was the CEO of Iron.io from founding in July 2011 through acquisition in April 2017. More on the acquisition here: https://medium.com/@carimura/thanks-and-onward-ed79068413deOver 3,000 companies including CNN, AAA, Bleacher Report, and HotelTonight trust Iron.io services to power their distributed applications. At the core of the platform is IronWorker, event-based processing that manages and abstracts out the underlying compute resources, and IronMQ, a high performance distributed message queue for the cloud. Together, they enable developers to build powerful event-driven applications without the notion of infrastructure.Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, Calif., Iron.io is a private company backed by leading cloud investors including Bain Capital Ventures, Baseline Ventures, Divergent Ventures, Ignition Partners and Cloud Capital Partners.

Appoxy LLC specialized in agile development of applications on cloud technologies. We focused on strategy, architecture, and implementation of cloud-based technologies for companies in both the enterprise space as well as small to mid-market.With a team of developers we built a set of backend systems that handled backups, deployment, and scheduled data processing which we ended up releasing under the "Simple" brand as SimpleDeployr.com, SimpleWorkr.com, and SimpleBackr.com.SimpleWorkr really took off so we phased out our client work, rebranded SimpleWorker as IronWorker, and launched our new venture-backed company Iron.io.

Another great opportunity to up-level my sales experience by becoming a technical sales overlay. My team primarily sold Oracle Database and my role was to carry a $2.2M group middleware quota which included identity management, content management, and app server. Mostly early SOA plumbing but some app dev elements as well.I was fortunate to exceed my quota and attend Oracle Presidents Club for FY'08, my only full year at the company before leaving to start my own company.

I had the amazing opportunity early in my career to learn how to sell at Sprint. As a developer, I was dropped into a team helping 9 account executives sell mobile technology services and embedded solutions. I built recurring revenue streams through on-site customer interactions, designing and deploying enterprise solutions around mobile broadband Internet services, work order management software, GPS tracking, distributed media content, and CRM tools. But really, what I learned was how to get up the nerve to walk confidently into all sorts of uncomfortable situations.

Built a charity engine to facilitate the process of donating money to charities on a recurring basis as well as allowing donors to connect with each other through an online social networking site.Incorporated as a 501©3 non-profit organization with the state of California and the federal IRS. End-to-end design and build of the webapp using Ruby on Rails in the middle, MySQL on the backend, and XHTML/HTML with splashes of AJAX on the front.Grew to over 300 donors within 12 months of launch and very little marketing as a side project, generating over $3,000/month in donations. Began to realize that this was much more than a side project so with their permission, migrated each donor to NetworkForGood, a similarly aligned organization.

Developed front and backend systems in J2EE for an energy monitoring and managing system.

Chad Co-Founded and built the business from 4 to 15 employees before it's acquisition by University Pipeline in 2006.* Led development teams through the entire product lifecycle building both internal ERP and Salesforce.com systems, as well as a multitude of external customer facing apps including a retail site, viral marketing app, and others.* Co-developed peer-to-peer viral marketing applications that harness the power of social networks to virally promote products and services.* Architected a strategic service-oriented architecture integration between Salesforce.com and external/internal apps to streamline data feeds and market insight