Summary
Derek Remund is a reliability engineering leader with 13+ years of experience applying SRE and cloud-native practices across startups, enterprises, and government organizations. He currently leads Customer Reliability Engineering within Google Cloud Professional Services, having been hand-selected to seed Rackspace’s CRE initiative and help customers re-architect, instrument, and automate applications for scalable performance and measurable SLOs. His background spans systems administration, DevOps, data platforms (Cassandra, Hadoop, Spark), and pre-sales/technical training, giving him a rare blend of hands-on engineering, teaching, and client-facing strategy. A former US Army designated marksman, he brings disciplined servant leadership and a strengths-driven approach (Learner, Achiever, Maximizer) to complex technical transformations. Recent certifications include one of the world’s first Certified Apache Cassandra Architects, underscoring a continued commitment to deep technical mastery.
13 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