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Arjun Chopra

Partner, Floodgate

San Francisco, California

Work Experience

2015

  • Partner

    2015

    Helping highly innovative entrepreneurs build Thunder Lizards in a capital-efficient manner. Floodgate's investments include Twitter, Lyft, Okta, Chegg, Twitch, Applied Intuition, Starkware, Shipper, Skale, Fieldguide and several others.

2013 - 2015

  • Chief Technology Officer

    2013 - 2015

    • Founding CTO of smartShift - a spinout from Cambridge Technology Enterprises. • Spearheaded the development and implementation of cutting-edge tools and services to transform legacy infrastructure for large, global enterprises into cloud-native and cloud-ready services. • Managed multiple development and operations centers across the US, Europe, and Asia. • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to drive innovation and efficiency in legacy infrastructure transformation projects.

  • Chief Technology Officer

    2009 - 2015

    • Led global team of 350+ technologists across the US, Europe and Asia as the Chief Technology Member and Board Member. • Worked closely with global organizations to develop cloud strategy, products, and solutions to assist with legacy modernization and cloud transformation. • Managed over 200M hours of uptime in public cloud, including production systems for 10 of the top 20 Global financial institutions. • Recognized as one of AWS' top 22 partners worldwide, as measured by revenue and impact.

2006 - 2009

  • Founder

    2006 - 2009

    Vox Holdings is focused on helping people find and operate Open Source software more effectively. Vox Holdings also owns and operates OStatic as part of the GigaOM network. Vox Holdings has been acquired by Cambridge Technology Enterprises, a publicly traded Cloud Computing firm.

2004 - 2006

  • EIR

    2004 - 2006

1998 - 2002

  • Software Developer

    1998 - 2002

1997 - 1997

  • Software Development Engineer

    1997 - 1997

    Summer internship working as part of the Excel team.