n+30 Days
Colm’s “n+1″ post reminded me that I’d forgotten to write about this.
On July 27th, I started at Amazon, in a new Dublin-based software dev team working on infrastructure automation. It’s now (just over) a month later, and I’m enjoying it immensely.
Needless to say, this company does some very interesting web-scale technology, and getting to look inside the AWS sausage factory is really enjoyable, believe it or not ;)
(I should also post a pic of my glorious screen real-estate. The hardware is a massive improvement over the previous gig, thankfully.)
Unfortunately, however, this has coincided with a lack of free time to blog and keep up with interweb-based leisure pursuits, including SpamAssassin. Really though, this is more due to looking after two wonderful little girls under 2 years of age, rather than the job — but still, I need to remedy my neglect of this site…
In SpamAssassin news: we’ve been putting out some alpha releases of 3.3.0, and are planning to do a mass-check for score-generation in the next couple of days. Hopefully we can drive 3.3.0 to a GA release in a few weeks.
Also — we’re still looking for more people in the Amazon team, and hiring aggressively. If you’re looking for an interesting software dev role in Dublin, get in touch!
PS: it was Bea’s second birthday last weekend. Check out the awesome Very Hungry Caterpillar cupcake cake made by the missus for the occasion:
Walter Higgins said,
September 3, 2009 @ 8:21 am
Congrats on the Amazon gig. Too bad they don’t have a Cork office.
Stuart McCaul said,
September 3, 2009 @ 2:41 pm
Hi Justin,
Looks like you got a great gig. Of course, you’re missing out on working with us!
I hope it works out for well you.
Rgds.
Peter Blair said,
September 3, 2009 @ 3:27 pm
That’s a favorite book of my daughters as well — very nice cupcake caterpillar!
Kae Verens said,
September 4, 2009 @ 12:53 am
my son knows the words of that story all too well, and has spent days drawing every scene of it.
Jareth would /love/ that cake. I’ll show it to him tomorrow
Anders Holm said,
September 4, 2009 @ 8:27 am
Walter, how could we not have an office in the Peoples Republic of Cork?
Well, if you’re interested in customer service anyway ..
Love the cake there Justin. I arranged a Winnie the Pooh cake for my kids many many years ago now. They still talk of it. Mainly because they ate too much.. :)
Alex said,
September 4, 2009 @ 9:23 pm
Happy birthday Bea!
Hope she had a nice green leaf the day afterwards.
Alex
Brian White said,
September 4, 2009 @ 9:36 pm
Awesome to hear!
Paul M. Watson said,
September 7, 2009 @ 2:32 pm
And you’re getting one of our best engineers, Brian White, soon. Now if only I was a Java/C++ head…
Justin said,
September 7, 2009 @ 4:02 pm
Paul: I know! sorry about that, but I’m quite happy with the result ;)