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 core automation that drives day-to-day operation.
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.
Across more than a decade he has founded and run infrastructure and software businesses, 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)
