Derek DeJonghe has had a lifelong passion for technology. His background and experience in web development, system administration, and networking give him a well-rounded understanding of modern web architecture. Derek leads a team of site reliability and cloud solution engineers and produces self-healing, auto-scaling infrastructure for numerous applications. While designing, building, and maintaining highly available applications for clients, he consults for larger organizations as they embark on their journey to the cloud. Derek and his team are on the forefront of a technology tidal wave and are engineering cloud best practices every day. With a proven track record for resilient cloud architecture, Derek pioneers cloud deployments for security and maintainability that are in the best interest of his clients.