Hi everyone,
I'm pleased to welcome a new member of our analytics engineering team. David Schoonover starts today in the San Francisco office[1] as our new Systems Engineer for Data Analytics. David previously worked remotely for a company in McLean, VA in Virginia's Silicon...thing (not valley, forest or alley...what do they call it? "Silicon road to Dulles"?). Anyway, David's work was at Clearspring, the company responsible for the AddThis sharing widget that's installed across 10+ million domains servicing 60k+ requests per second. He and a co-worker built a scalable real-time analytics system to power the Share Count feature of their tools, which is part of a real-time dashboard you get as a user of their service.
In addition to David's talent in database technology and software engineering, David also adds to our growing team of capable photographers in Platform Engineering. Because, after all, every good engineering organization should have plenty of great photographers.
I've also found David will immediately will draw a dinosaur[2] on a whiteboard in whatever room he is in. So, those of you in our SF office, if you see a plesiosaur on the whiteboard near you, that probably means he's been there recently. Or maybe it's been there a while but now won't erase. Either way, he probably drew it.
David will be joining Andrew Otto and Erik Zachte in the analytics group in Platform Engineering, working very closely with Diederik van Liere from Howie's new Product Management team. David, Andrew and Diederik (along with contractor Fabian Kaelin) are working on fixing up our reporting pipeline and report card.
Welcome David!
Rob
[1] Yes, that's right, I've actually hired another person in San Francisco, and this time, I didn't have to convince him to move here. When I have team meetings, I'll have to get a conference room with THREE chairs. And a good phone. [2] Dinosaur samples: http://art.less.ly/dinosaurs/