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October 04, 2008
Looking back at 4 1/2 years
Earlier this week, the company I've been working for since March 2004 closed its doors. It's sad, but I feel pretty good looking back over what we accomplished.
I've always liked learning on the job, and I had plenty of opportunities to do so. There was very little turnover in Engineering, and I got to work with and learn from some smart people for over 4 years.
The first major change for me was moving from systems administration to software development. My original title there was Systems Engineer and I later moved on to Lead Systems Engineer and Manager of Platform Engineering. Suffice it to say that this change was absolutely for the better.
For the first couple of years, I spent most of my time continuing development of a Perl client/server app that managed a network of remote Linux systems. As that product was nearing the end of its life I was able to architect and develop a new version of the application, which involved picking up a bunch of new skills including git, OSX, Ruby/Rails, Xen, Scrum, and a bunch of other related stuff.
I'm not sure where I'll end up next, but I know the Bay Area has no shortage of smart people working on fun and interesting projects in very similar development environments; and I'm excited about the prospect of being part of that.
Posted by nickh at October 4, 2008 08:44 AM