We’re very excited to welcome Jeremy Kemper to the 37signals team. He starts next week.
Jeremy is the #2 contributor to Ruby on Rails and has been around since the dawn of the framework.
Jeremy comes to us from CD Baby where he was responsible for rebuilding much of their infrastructure and assembling their Rails team.
We’ve had our eye on Jeremy for some time. Since the early days of Rails, he’s always stood out as an obvious hire. So it’s fantastic that we’ve finally been able to make it happen.
We’ve got some great stuff planned. It’s going to be a blast to be able to work with Jeremy to get these things into your hands (well, on to your screens).
Welcome aboard Jeremy!
Raymond Brigleb
on 26 Jan 07Congratulations Jeremy! That is wonderful news. Portland represent!!!
Jeff Croft
on 26 Jan 07One of the most awesome things about creating an open source project and using it yourself is the benefits to the hiring process. When we hire programers at World Online, not do we have a large community of Django programers wanting to work for us, we also have months or years worth of their contributions to Django available to review. But usually that’s not even necessary, because we are already familiar with the top contributors in the Django community, just by way of them being involved in the community.
We didn’t open source Django so we could make better hires (and I’m sure you didn’t have that in mind when you released Rails, either), but damn, it sire is a nice side-benefit.
JF
on 26 Jan 07Definitely, Jeff. We wrote about this in Getting Real: Actions, Not Words.
warren
on 26 Jan 07sounds like he’ll make an excellent addition to the team. congrats.
hooray for internet meritocracies.
Randy J. Hunt
on 26 Jan 07Congrats, Jeremy. Looking very much forward to what’s in store. As I’ve interacted with Rails teams and projects over the last couple of years, your name kept popping up. Now I know a bit of the backstory.
Zack
on 26 Jan 07Congrats Jeremy and thanks for your thousands of contributions to Rails.
Andy Kant
on 26 Jan 07Congratulations, Jeremy. I’m so jealous. ;-)
Glenn Davies
on 26 Jan 07Good to see you guys adding great talent. Congrats! Will Jeremy’s help get Sunrise to my screen soon? The current CRMish offerings are so very painful to use after one has become devoted to Basecamp.
Keep it up guys!
makoto
on 26 Jan 07congrats, does that mean that 37signals is growing and planning a new web service? or is he assigned to ‘minimalize’ basecamphq features too?
Manton Reece
on 27 Jan 07Congratulations Jeremy and 37signals. Looking forward to seeing what comes out this year.
And Jason, wasn’t CD Baby the site you highlighted in a SXSW talk several years ago, because it used pre tags to show search results super fast? I always loved that.
Pascal Venier
on 27 Jan 07Is 37Signals a men only operation? and if so why?
JF
on 27 Jan 07Yes, men only at this time. No reason, that’s just how it’s worked out so far.
Deepak
on 27 Jan 07Great hire folks. Some of my friends have released records via CD Baby, a site I knew about before I ever knew what Rails was.
John Topley
on 27 Jan 07Get that sidebar updated! ;-)
Ryan Bergeman
on 27 Jan 07Very nice. Congratulations, Jeremy!
Ted
on 28 Jan 07You might want to update “Who are 37signals?” on the ride side to include Jeremy.
Anonymous Coward
on 28 Jan 07Are you guys blind? It says he starts next week. I’m sure the sidebar will be updated when he officially starts.
Anonymous Coward
on 30 Jan 07Did Marcel leave?
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