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Derek Ross

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Field CTO at TrueMark
📍 South Jordan, Utah, United States

Derek is a Field CTO at TrueMark with over 10 years of experience leading enterprise delivery teams. He specializes in cloud-first solutions, DevOps, Generative AI, and secure automation, with a background at AWS. Colleagues describe him as a technically adept, self-starting, and outstanding technical leader.

Outside of technology, Derek is a former small business owner and U. S. Army Special Forces Medical Sergeant. This background provides him with a unique skill set and a disciplined approach to solving problems. He has a passion for high-quality equipment, identifying himself as a “gear snob. ”

Unique fact: Derek is a Green Beret combat veteran, bringing lessons on disciplined, repeatable processes from his military career into the world of DevOps.

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Experience
7 Years
Current Role
Field CTO
Job Level
Leadership
Location
South Jordan, Utah, United States
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Cloud Strategy
He writes about the real business cost of cloud outages and the importance of choosing the right AWS partner, drawing lessons from his time at Amazon.
DevOps Security
Advocates for baking security directly into the CI/CD pipeline, creating disciplined and repeatable processes to avoid complexity and pressure on engineering teams.
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Career

Work history

10-2024
Field CTO
TrueMark
9-2022 - 10-2024
Senior Solutions Architect
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
10-2021 - 9-2022
Lead Solutions Engineer
Opsera
1-2020 - 10-2021
Lead Solutions Engineer
BrowserStack
2-2018 - 1-2020
Solutions Engineer
Sauce Labs
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Education
2013 - 2016
Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.)
Xavier University
2009 - 2013
Associate of Arts (A.A.)
American InterContinental University
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