Today starts the countdown to a the start of new phase of my
career. After working at Racemi for just over ten years, I have
decided that it is time to move on to new challenges. Starting next
Monday, 13 February, I will be a “Senior Cloud Developer” for
Dreamhost.

Ten years is a long time to be with one group of developers, and
leaving Racemi was not an easy decision. I have been through a lot
with this team. I traveled to customer sites when the company was
small enough that we sent developers on sales calls. I learned a lot
about data center automation with them, and had an opportunity to work
with some unusual hardware that came before its time. Together we
created some crazy-cool product code that I could never have imagined
on my own. We work well together, even when we disagree, and because
of that, through it all, I enjoyed working with them. I am proud of
what we have built together and I hope their successful trend
continues. But the time has come for me to push myself in a different
direction.

The enthusiasm of the people I met while visiting Dreamhost’s offices
in LA was infectious, and a big part of why I decided this move would
be right for me. I look forward to the opportunity to learn an entire
stack of new technologies and make major product design decisions on
some exciting new projects. As part of the work we will be doing, I
anticipate being able to contribute to more open source projects, too,
and will more about work-related projects as a result.

I am looking forward to joining Jonathan, Duncan, and the rest of
the talented team at Dreamhost!