Neo backs Deref
Hi Neo friends!
We’ve just invested in Deref, a new service that helps engineering teams manage cloud services. We’ve tracked founder Brandon Bloom for years and have, er, logged many hours supporting his prior pursuits.
-Ali
Deref is a next-generation cloud management platform for DevOps. Every cloud-native business depends on dozens of cloud and SaaS services. Understanding how the pieces fit together can be challenging. Deref works like an IDE for the cloud: Deref helps engineers find what they're looking for with global search; keep track of changes and ownership with an audit log for resources; and rein in complexity and cost with advanced analysis and refactoring tools.
Brandon Bloom, Deref CEO & founder
Brandon drew inspiration for Deref from his prior senior engineering roles. Throughout his career, Brandon has sought to use his powers for good, on rewarding projects including Axon’s police body cameras and Code.org’s original Hour of Code. Not satisfied with just doing work for good, Brandon insists on doing good work: from engineering systems that scale to petabytes of video and millions of students, to building the Xbox SDK at Microsoft. His first company, Thinkfuse, was acquired by Salesforce. Brandon grew up on Long Island, began writing software professionally at a young age, and studied CS at Drexel University.