Summary
DeVante Pickering is a Microsoft‑certified technology leader and entrepreneur with 10+ years building cloud-native systems across startups, Fortune 50 firms, and the public sector. As President and Co‑Founder of Pick 2 Solutions he architects secure, automated infrastructure and DevOps practices for highly regulated industries including finance, healthcare, and government. His career started in EdTech and progressed through selective programs and early-stage fintech roles—Wells Fargo’s Emerging Talent Program, Barings, and an early engineering role at a fintech later acquired by Ally—giving him a rare blend of startup grit and enterprise discipline. He’s delivered end‑to‑end Azure topologies and reusable Terraform IaC, led distributed and offshore teams, and scaled platforms from music streaming into podcasts, audiobooks, and video. Based in North Carolina, he pairs hands‑on cloud architecture with a strategic focus on compliance and operational automation, often surfacing pragmatic security controls that accelerate delivery without slowing teams.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at University of North Carolina at Wilmington
English, French