Mike Estes
Founder & CEO at DevNest
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolMike Estes is a seasoned cloud and operations leader with 12 years of experience helping organizations modernize infrastructure, optimize cloud costs, and implement secure, compliant architectures. Currently Head of Business Development at DevNest and Head of Customer Success at Cedarcide, he also runs Estes Advisory, guiding clients on enterprise architecture, DevOps, data platforms and GRC across the U.S. He has built and scaled engineering and operations teams at companies from startups to Snowflake, launching cloud engineering practices, IaC libraries, and observability and security programs across AWS, Azure and GCP. Mike blends hands-on technical depth (DevOps, Terraform, Airflow, cloud HSMs) with commercial leadership—creating SOWs, pre-sales assessments and strategic partnerships for growth. Notably, he has repeatedly led cross-functional scaling efforts (FieldOps, DataOps, HardwareOps and remote annotation teams) to meet rapid customer demand and tight SLAs. Based in Flower Mound, Texas, he pairs pragmatic engineering with advisory-level strategy to turn complex cloud initiatives into measurable business outcomes.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
San Jose City College
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