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Hi my name is Chad Arimura.

I am a 3x entrepreneur, most recently as co-founder and CEO of Iron.io where we grew a multi-million dollar ARR business helping pioneer serverless computing including some of the earliest usages of the term "serverless" in 2010. Thanks to Ken Fromm for coining and pushing it! We sold the company in 2017 and joined Oracle.

On joining Oracle as Vice President of Serverless, I established the serverless organization, which produced The Fn Project and later Oracle Functions, making Oracle one of the only major clouds to offer a functions-as-a-service platform largely built on upstream open source code. Once the serverless org was fully established, I moved to the Java Platform Group to help build out the developer relations and Java in Education groups.

Since joining, we've launched Dev.java, Inside.java, Learn.java, grew the YouTube channel significantly, partnered with the College Board to modernize AP, and built a great group that has played a role in ushering in what's looking like Java's renaissance.

I grew up running BBS's somewhere around the 14.4 era, and 30 years later I still love building stuff when I get the chance, which I'll try and write about here.

You can find me on X but I'm not big on socials. I used to write on Medium, now I'll write more here.

But most importantly I am married to the amazing Sarah Arimura, dad to 3 awesome kiddos, boss of a few dogs, and commander and chief to give or take 18 chickens.