Derek has over 25 years of experience as a technology evangelist, systems architect, and data systems engineer. At Silk, he is responsible for guiding the customer-facing architect teams, developing product roadmap and is the primary technical evangelist in the organization. Prior to Silk, Derek has had a successful career in architecting, deploying and operating enterprise class network, compute and storage solutions in dozens of datacenters. He holds a Bachelors in Political Science and Government from Brigham Young University, with an emphasis on classical philosophy.