Justin Giardina

Chief Technology Officer at 11:11 Systems

Houston, Texas, United States

About Justin Giardina

Justin Giardina is Chief Technology Officer at 11:11 Systems. Location: Houston, Texas, United States.

Chief Technology Officer with 26+ years of experience building and leading organizations across cloud, infrastructure, security, resilience, and platform operations in enterprise and service provider environments. I work at the intersection of executive strategy and deep technical execution, translating business priorities into scalable outcomes across architecture, disaster recovery, platform engineering, operations, and solution design. That same approach shapes my work in AI, where I focus on making it practical and commercially relevant by connecting executive vision with real-world implementation across workflows, automation, and customer-facing innovation. My background includes global-scale environments spanning multiple geographies and hundreds of thousands of virtual machines, along with deep experience in modernization, networking, and resilience. Throughout my career, I have helped turn deep technical capability into market leadership by leading technology strategy and product direction, building market-recognized cloud and resilience platforms, earning validation from Gartner and Forrester, strengthening partner ecosystems, and translating differentiation into commercial momentum. I serve on technical advisory boards for leading infrastructure, cloud, security, and resilience providers and am a member of the Forbes Technology Council. I am also a regular speaker and contributor on cloud, virtualization, disaster recovery, cyber resilience, and AI infrastructure. My leadership style is grounded in technical credibility, operational rigor, and business alignment—building high-performing teams, modernizing core platforms, and turning engineering capability into strategic advantage.

Skills

  • Linux System Administration
  • Sales

Additional experience

  • Director of Infrastructure

    Texas Petrochemicals

    January 2007 – March 2008

Education

  • , University of New Orleans