I work for Slicehost
October 4, 2007
As of this previous Monday, I no longer work for Cuker Design. I’d like to state up front that this was an amicable split. When the company started in May of last year I was excited to be a part of a design firm that had some business sense. The infrastructure I built is something I will always be proud of; The speed and quality of development has become astounding.
However, I’m not one to deal well with high-stress situations, and at a high-profile design firm every client will stress you out. I was fortunate to work with Nikolaj Baer and Aaron Blomberg who both relieve a significant amount of that stress. Things quickly snowballed over the months; More clients, more work. We hired several new developers, each with his strength. Eventually I began to manage projects more than I developed. The quick pace wore thin on me as I am not a great multi-tasker.
When the job opportunity for Slicehost opened up, I was excited. Jason and Matt, the Slicehost founders, have a philosophy I share: virtualization is the future. Their pragmatic approach to the Slicehost infrastructure—and to client relations as well—made the company an easy fit for my career path.
The only caveat is that I have to develop using Ruby on Rails, which I found out I actually like!
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Congrats Jared! Are you able to disclose what your role at the company will be?
Posted by Bryan
Thanks, Bryan. I suppose my official title is "Developer and Systems Engineer", though it's bound to be more liquid than that. I'll be developing parts of the Slicehost infrastructure, fixing bugs, etc.
Posted by SuperJared
Congratulations! This is very cool news.
Posted by stubblechin
Congratulations! Hopefully you won't forget about Django though ;)
Posted by Arthur Case
No way would I forget about Django! One thing I'll be doing support-wise is playing the Python side of the fence. Jason, Matt and Paul are all Ruby guys which is why most of the documentation is about that. I'll be writing bits soon about Django deployment, mod_wsgi, etc. very soon.
Plus, I have a few side projects I'm working on -- all in Django.
Posted by SuperJared
Am I going to see you again before we're both completely bald?
Write me once.
I'm going to get out of engineering.
and into linguistics.
somehow.
take care, Mr. Busy Important Executive Systems/Design Engineer.
Posted by Orrin
Congratulations! Glad to hear it. :)
Posted by cnladd
Yeah, that's something agency work always brings with it: high stress, constant deadlines and a frantic pace at all times. I definitely have a love/hate relationship with the agency world, but couldn't see myself anywhere else.
Posted by Geof Harries