Jesse Schokker is the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Serverside.com, where he leads the engineering behind the company's bare-metal cloud — from the ASN 55285 backbone and always-on DDoS mitigation to the provisioning stack that brings physical servers online in under a minute.
He also serves as Head of Infrastructure Operations at Host Havoc, a global game-server hosting provider, where he runs the worldwide fleet that keeps latency low and uptime high for players. Earlier, as EMEA Business Development Manager at Global Secure Layer, he built out a global transit network specialising in IP transit and inline DDoS protection — the deep networking grounding that shapes Serverside's network design today.
Across more than a decade he has founded and run infrastructure and software businesses (Schokker IT, BFI Networks), working hands-on as a network and software engineer. He writes here about dedicated servers, operating systems, networking, and running production workloads on bare metal.
Areas of expertise
- Bare-metal and IaaS infrastructure
- Network engineering, IP transit and peering
- DDoS mitigation
- Game-server hosting at global scale
- Software engineering (C++ and full-stack)
