We’re excited to announce another new addition to our team: Will Jessop, who pings from Manchester in the UK, is now the second EU engineer on our Operations team.
Will comes from Engine Yard where he provided scaling and support expertise for Rails sites such as Seeking Alpha, Groupon and KgbKgb. Recently Will worked on a senior team tasked with live migrating more than half of Engine Yard’s private cloud customers to a new cloud platform. It’s going to be great to have another member of the team with such deep understanding of application development and systems implementation practices.
With the addition of Will, we’ll have a lot more ability to conduct off-hours maintenance and scalability testing. He will also be helping us improve deployment practices, standardize our applications on the latest Ruby, and improve performance of our applications in Europe and the rest of the non-US world.
Welcome aboard, Will!
HolyShez
on 02 Dec 10Yet another new hire.
(Must be nearly 37 people now working at 37signals).
Adam Holt
on 02 Dec 10Congrats, Will!
Caius Durling
on 02 Dec 10Nice one Will.
David
on 02 Dec 10Congrats Will!
Quite an ex-engineyard crew running 37 signals operations these days!
Mark Elgon
on 02 Dec 10Is there anyone left at Engineyard?
James Inman
on 02 Dec 10Congrats, Will. :)
Anonymous Coward
on 02 Dec 10Congrats Will! Yet another good hire.
Hope we’ll see you around! Best of luck, though you probably don’t need it :)
Tony
on 02 Dec 10Will is a great guy — you’ve definitely got yourselves a good one there. Congrats.
Mutwin
on 02 Dec 10Congrats, Will! And congrats 37signals for hiring another awesome guy to your Ops team!
John Cinnamond
on 02 Dec 10ooh, ooh, ooh - I used to work with Will (I just had to ping him to make sure it was the same Will Jessop). He’s a good guy - good choice 37signals :-)
Congrats both sides!
Richard
on 02 Dec 10this is more “noise” than “signal”
Scott
on 02 Dec 10Hope you’re not starting a cascading EY brain drain.
tobau
on 02 Dec 10yes he will :)
sudara
on 02 Dec 10Woot! Go will!
Jayson Vantuyl
on 03 Dec 10Founder of Engine Yard chiming in here.
First of all, congratulations Will. 37signals has shown to be a great place to work, and I’m sure you’ll enjoy this opportunity.
Secondly, Engine Yard just doesn’t need as many ops people as it used to. It’s not like we don’t have work for people, but as your cloud gets more solid, people can get more mobile and have fun doing Ruby and devops at new places. So, no brain drain, just people branching out in their careers after being awesome with us for a while.
Scott
on 03 Dec 10Well stated, Jayson. Thanks.
Rob Gough
on 03 Dec 10Congrats Will! Sounds like a great job!
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