Derek is the Founder and CEO of Nozzle, an enterprise rank tracking solution that helps companies understand where they and their competitors rank on Google and other search engines. He has been an evangelist for Vitess since it was open sourced, speaking about it often and was responsible for scheduling the first Vitess-specific meetup in July 2018. (https://massivescalewithvitess.splashthat.com/) Derek wrote and maintains the Helm chart and is working on the Vitess operator.