Akanda: running a networking startup

From March to December 2015 I was a vice president at Akanda in Livermore. Akanda was an angel-funded startup created by DreamHost. It built layer 3 to 7 network services for OpenStack Neutron.

I managed all of Akanda's operations and development. In a company that size, that means everything: developer retrospectives, sales calls, customer operations, board materials, hiring and firing. I found and set up the home office and set the protocols for customer operations and the R&D lab.

I also managed the community for Astara, the upstream open-source project.

We did not secure Series A funding, and Akanda merged back into DreamHost.