The Apcera trusted cloud platform is a highly secure, policy-driven platform for cloud-native applications and microservices—as well as legacy applications. Apcera lets dev teams use any modern tool or software they want while giving IT the assurance that their infrastructure is safe and secure.

With Apcera, companies can innovate at speed with full confidence and trust.

Based in downtown SF and led by CEO Derek Collison, Apcera was initially funded by Andreessen Horowitz, Kleiner Perkins, and True Ventures among others, and recently received a very deep, nine-figure (USD) strategic investment from Ericsson, the global technology, cloud and mobile giant headquartered in Sweden.

Joined the Rakuten PaaS project as one of the earliest members of the team. The project started as an initiative to improve the development cycle of services by automating away the provisioning of resources and providing a deployment pipeline for application developers, basing on the Cloud Foundry project from VMware.

• Designed and implemented the log collection infrastructure to be used throughout the PaaS by using Fluentd, given that there was not consolidated logging approach at the time in CF.

• Maintenance and operation of the PaaS

+ Ruby runtime & Rails support

+ Services support: Redis, Mongodb, Log forwarders

+ "Infrastructure as code" approach with Chef

+ Capacity management and coordination with infrastructure teams

+ Setup of CF deployments in new datacenters

• Participate in the 24/7 on call rotation to support issues in the system and users of the platform