Delali Dzirasa is the founder and CEO of Fearless (https://fearless.tech), a full stack digital services firm in Baltimore, Maryland with a mission to create software with a soul - tools that empower communities and make a difference. Fearless delivers sleek, modern, and user-friendly software designed to push the boundaries of possibility, to create a world where good software powers the things that matter.

There are plenty of brown cow software shops around. We are a purple cow that stands apart from the herd by being surprisingly different through the work we do.

Awards

• Monitory Business of the Year Maryland
• Incubator Company of the Year
• Smart CEO Award
• Downtown Baltimore Award
• Top MD Govt Contractor
• BBJ 40 under 40
• BBJ top 100 Young execs Nationally
• Civil Rights Award
• Tech 10 Awards
• Best Place to Work, Multiple times
• Baltimore Largest Software Developer
• Baltimore #5 Largest Minority Owned Business
• Dev/Design Firm of the Year
• HUBZone National Corporate
• Citizen of the Year

We care deeply about Baltimore, and we want our city to be the best it can possibly be. That’s why we’re so committed to building up Baltimore’s entrepreneurial digital services community. Together, we can build up our community.

Growing civic tech companies. Start the year with an idea, end the year with revenue. Hutch will help you go from 0 to 60 in twelve months

Hutch is an intensive 12-month program that gives entrepreneurs a blueprint for building successful digital service firms, by empowering them with the tools, mentorship, and peer support they need to have a lasting impact. We think of this program kind of like a home-base for our entrepreneurs, giving them a foundation of support so they can grow without getting lost amongst bigger companies in the industry.

Web - https://fearless.tech/hutch

In 2015 Delali was a speaker at DevOpsDays DC and loved the experience and wanted to get them to bring the conference to Baltimore. As a volunteer led international conference they pushed him to start the conference in Baltimore. With am amazing team he launched and co-chaired the conference for the 2 years.

DevOpsDays is a unique conference for anyone interested in building or operating a high-velocity, software-driven business or agency. The program includes keynote talks, Ignite talks, and participant-organized open space discussions on the topics most important to the attendees.

View More - https://devopsdays.org/events/2017-baltimore/welcome/

2018 Delali served on the 5 person Steering Committee that launched the Digital Services Coalition (DSC).

DSC is a non-profit organization consisting of a select few companies driven to accelerate government's digital transformation. These companies embody the mindset, behavior, and culture that the government needs from the contractor community in today's digital world. Each member company has been pre-vetted by their peers against a set of standards for digital delivery excellence based on the U.S. Digital Services Playbook.

View More - https://digitalservicescoalition.org/

Delali is the Founder and Co-Chair of Hack Baltimore.

Hack Baltimore is a large-scale, City-wide initiative that taps into Charm City’s flourishing diversity and creativity to innovate around the toughest civic problems by using technology to solve real-world problems.

View More - https://hackbaltimore.io/