As I write this I have just less than a 3 days before my tenure with Compendium Blogware will come to its end. I will be leaving my post as VP of Product and leaving it in the capable hands of our new Director of Engineering, PJ Hinton, whom I had the pleasure of hiring back in December of 2007. I started with Compendium Blogware in September of 2007 and since then have had the tremendous pleasure to watch it grow into a truly amazing company.
When I started as employee 4 (or so) back in September of 2007, I was in charge of a department of 1 (myself). I had a software product that was still very much in beta mode sitting on a single server. We had a small handful of clients (less than 25) and our single server had some issues supporting them. We didn't really have a product development process, there was no unit testing or any other formal testing, and next to no documentation.
In two years the product team has grown to a team of 8. The product has not only removed the beta tag, but is better than 4 nines stable. Our platform supports hundreds of millions of page views, millions of pieces of content, and tens of thousands of blogs. It does all of this on a service oriented, RESTful, multi data center, highly available and distributed platform. We have extensive automated testing, a published and well documented API, and a repeatable well understood release process.
In short, I'm incredibly proud to have been a part of such an amazing team and have witnessed this kind of growth. I've been very lucky in my career and most recently at Compendium to be able to make such in impact in such a short period of time. I will be starting at local search company ChaCha on August 10th as their VP of Engineering to take on a new and different set of challanges. Despite this change, I remain committed both personally and as a stakeholder to the continued success of Compendium. I have no doubt that Compendium will see continued growth and I look forward to seeing where that growth takes the company.
I'd also like to thank all of my coworkers over the past two years for making Compendium such a dynamic and fun place to work. Your continued generous support of my various fundraising activities was also much appreciated. We raised more than $10k over the past two years for various local charities which speaks to both the caliber and nature of the people I have been working with.
You can always reach my through my personal site, mobocracy.net which has all of my various contact information. Thanks again everyone and best of luck.
When I started as employee 4 (or so) back in September of 2007, I was in charge of a department of 1 (myself). I had a software product that was still very much in beta mode sitting on a single server. We had a small handful of clients (less than 25) and our single server had some issues supporting them. We didn't really have a product development process, there was no unit testing or any other formal testing, and next to no documentation.
In two years the product team has grown to a team of 8. The product has not only removed the beta tag, but is better than 4 nines stable. Our platform supports hundreds of millions of page views, millions of pieces of content, and tens of thousands of blogs. It does all of this on a service oriented, RESTful, multi data center, highly available and distributed platform. We have extensive automated testing, a published and well documented API, and a repeatable well understood release process.
In short, I'm incredibly proud to have been a part of such an amazing team and have witnessed this kind of growth. I've been very lucky in my career and most recently at Compendium to be able to make such in impact in such a short period of time. I will be starting at local search company ChaCha on August 10th as their VP of Engineering to take on a new and different set of challanges. Despite this change, I remain committed both personally and as a stakeholder to the continued success of Compendium. I have no doubt that Compendium will see continued growth and I look forward to seeing where that growth takes the company.
I'd also like to thank all of my coworkers over the past two years for making Compendium such a dynamic and fun place to work. Your continued generous support of my various fundraising activities was also much appreciated. We raised more than $10k over the past two years for various local charities which speaks to both the caliber and nature of the people I have been working with.
You can always reach my through my personal site, mobocracy.net which has all of my various contact information. Thanks again everyone and best of luck.
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