Why Arpio?
In February of 2017, we were working elsewhere when AWS famously suffered a region-wide outage of the S3 service in Northern Virginia. The subsequent cascade of failures within that region brought much of the internet down. We went down too.
The outage lasted for hours, and there was nothing we could do but wait. We had plenty of time to contemplate the situation we were in. When will the services recover? Will our data still be there? What will we do if it isn’t? How had we completely forgotten the discipline of offsite backup? What other types of disasters are we vulnerable to? And why isn’t disaster recovery just built into the cloud?
That last question stuck with us.
Meet the Founders
Doug Neumann
CEO
Doug has been delivering software as a service since before SaaS was an acronym. His first cloud service, built in 2000, was a platform for mass-scale online interaction between viewers of live television shows. After that, he spent 9 years as a product leader at Microsoft, delivering the first releases of the product now known as Azure DevOps. More recently, Doug spent 6 years building the software team at Bandwidth, where he led the development of Bandwidth’s core service offering.
When he’s not hustling for Arpio, you can find Doug driving dance carpool, sawing wood in his basement workshop, or brewing a batch of craft IPA in the garage.
Shaw Terwilliger
CTO
Shaw developed his first web application in 1995, and by 2001 was building highly scalable back-end services for early mobile applications. He spent most of the 2000s creating developer tools at SourceGear and Teamprise, culminating in the 2009 acquisition of Teamprise by Microsoft. In 2012, Shaw transitioned to Bandwidth as the lead architect of their next generation communications platform as a service for voice and messaging, built on Amazon Web Services. Most recently, Shaw took his AWS experience to Pattern Health to build its digital health platform as a service.
When he’s not in front of a modern computer, you might find Shaw at the electronics bench tinkering on an old CRT serial terminal or microcontroller. On weekends you might hear him practicing guitar, trying to keep up with his favorite 80’s bay area thrash bands.
Want to Learn More?
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