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A couple of weeks ago I gave an internal talk at IBM to the next batch of soon to be distinguished engineers. Distinguished engineer designation at IBM a highly coveted recognition. This blog is a brief summary of that hour long talk.
TLDR; Sometimes stars do align! For me these stars are open source, opportunity and people.
I have done a fair share of hiring in my career spanning at Red Hat, Apigee and Wootric. At Red Hat I was tasked with building a remote software engineering team after I had only been in the industry for couple of years. I was located in Austin, Texas but my team could theoretically be all over the world with preferences given to hiring in Brno, Czech Republic. This usually is one of the “perks”…
I recently came across a new open source project Envoy Mobile from the makers of Envoy Proxy. When I read about the problems Envoy Mobile is designed to solve it took me down memory lane to my first startup.
A Super High Level Description
I am not new to blogging. My blog on Blogspot is still “active”, I have experimented with or used Wordpress, Drupal, Medium, HubSpot and used several other platforms powering blogs at my employers. They all either seem bloated and are bloated because some require a database, some are very opinionted, some slowly get you into plugins hell and some are hosted so you kind of loose control over your…