About

The Kubernetes Platform that Optimized Uber's Cost now Optimizes Cost for anyone

Our Story

Founded by former Uber engineers Debo Ray and Rob Fletcher, DevZero began with a vision to redefine the cloud through flexible, containerized infrastructure. At Uber, Debo led pioneering projects that exposed the pain points of running microservices at massive scale. These challenges illuminated the need for a radically more efficient developer experience—one that balanced speed, reliability, and security without adding operational burden.

“We saw how slow software delivery held back innovation,” recalls Debo. “To fix it, we refined CI pipelines, adopted monorepos, and optimized code merges and container builds. We wanted to free engineers from cumbersome setup so they could simply spin up the environments, databases, and integrations they needed, on demand.”

A major breakthrough was specialized tooling. The team introduced Local Developer Analytics (LDA) to pinpoint workflow bottlenecks, boosted IDE responsiveness, and built platforms like Cerberus and Bits to streamline microservice interactions. Their crowning achievement was Devpod—a secure, remote environment that ran in the cloud while staying tightly integrated with local IDEs.

Debo Ray and Rob Fletcher

In tangible terms, these innovations doubled PR throughput, cut build times by 70%, and slashed large-scale deploys to minutes. Better yet, morale soared; for the first time in Uber’s history, internal infrastructure teams scored highly on developer satisfaction.

Recognizing the universal need for nimble, container-driven workflows, Debo and Rob launched DevZero. Today, our mission is to empower every engineering team with the agile infrastructure we pioneered at Uber, reshaping how software is developed—and how the cloud is defined.

Meet the Team

Co-Founder, CEO

Debo Ray

Co-Founder, COO

Rob Fletcher

Business Operations Manager

Darienne Schoonmaker

Technical Staff

Christian Miller

Technical Staff

Lauren Furumoto

Technical Staff

Kevin Shi

Technical Staff

Stuti Biyani

Solutions Architect

Everton Moreth

DevZero Mascot

Daisy

Technical Staff

Renato Nouman

Technical Staff

Ignas Mikalajūnas

Advisor

Ivan Smirnov

Member of Technical Staff

Ellie Ford

Technical Staff

Mauro Kinderknecht

Head of Marketing

Alberto Grande

Backed by  leading VCs

Our Values

Walk the talk

Our mission is to unlock developer potential by removing the obstacles that waste time, waste resources, and cause frustration. And we're committed to the same principles as we work with each other every day.

We don't trip over stubborn technology preferences or waste time with outdated office norms. We love smart and talented people, and we'll never let needless bureaucracy get in the way of those people bringing their talents to bear for our customers.

DevZero has office hubs in San Francisco and Seattle, as well as remote team members. Our hybrid work policy and regular in-person visits from remote employees foster collaboration while also creating flexibility for our team.

Inclusive by design

We believe that the best team will always be an inclusive team. We know that more perspectives and varied life experiences contribute to not only a better working environment, but to building a better product for our customers. We've seen homogeneous teams suffer from their blind spots, miss addressable audiences, and exacerbate existing inequity. Our team is inclusive by design, because we're designing our team to be the best.

Diversity, equity and inclusion are our north star not just as we hire, but as we compensate, promote, develop, and manage.

Hiring

Ready to become a DevZero?

Full-stack Developer

As an Engineer at DevZero, you will integrate advanced cloud functionality into the platform and help bring production-grade operational efficiency to developers everywhere. You will work closely with the founders and other engineers, bridging the gap between cloud infrastructure and application development.

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Developer Advocate

We're looking for developer relations who love to write, record, talk and present to join the team and help developers and DevOps be more productive.

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Full-stack Developer

As an Engineer at DevZero, you will integrate advanced cloud functionality into the platform and help bring production-grade operational efficiency to developers everywhere. You will work closely with the founders and other engineers, bridging the gap between cloud infrastructure and application development.

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