Summary
Derek Remund is a reliability engineering leader currently heading the Site Reliability Engineering practice at Google Cloud Professional Services, helping enterprises adapt Google's SRE principles to scale and optimize cloud-native applications. He was a founding member of Google's Customer Reliability Engineering initiative at Rackspace, leading cross-functional teams to assess, re-architect, instrument, and automate client apps to meet service level objectives. With over 12 years of experience across Google, Rackspace, and consulting, he blends software engineering, systems operations, and data technologies to deliver resilient, scalable platforms. A US Army veteran, he champions servant leadership and a learner/achiever mindset, evidenced by credentials like Certified Apache Cassandra Architect and a formal computer science degree. Based in the Denver metro area, he combines hands-on engineering with advisory leadership to guide complex transformations for enterprise customers.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Distinguished Graduate, Distinguished Graduate at Ronald Reagan High School
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign