Hi, my name is Chad Arimura.

I am a husband, father of 3, follower of Christ, boss of a few dogs, and commander-in-chief to 15-20 chickens.

I grew up running 3-5 node BBS's somewhere around the 14.4 era, and 30 years later I still love building stuff when I get the chance.

I am also a 3x entrepreneur, most recently co-founder and CEO of Iron.io where we grew a multi-million dollar business pioneering serverless computing. 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 education groups.

While there, my group 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 a Java Renaissance.

I wrote more about this role in my "thanks and onward" post, and for the first time in 20 years, I'm a free agent without a destination! We live in a wild, exciting, and somewhat scary time with the rapid pace of change. I'll be building, exploring, and talking to folks at companies of all stages thinking about what's next.

You can contact me on LinkedIn, X, or [email protected].