Joining Upgrade

This May 1, I joined Upgrade Inc as a Principal DevOps Engineer on the Infrastructure Performance Management (IPM) team. Technically this is a change of industries from automotive to financial. I was previously at Autonomic, a Ford subsidiary, as a Principal Site Reliability Engineer on the Observability team there. In practice, my clients continue to … Continue reading Joining Upgrade

Contributing to open source at IBM Skills Network in 2019

In 2019, my team embraced the philosophy that any library or package we create should be open sourced with a permissive license in a public source repo. This is not just the right thing to do -- it's also a more productive approach. It's the right thing to do because we get to collaborate effectively … Continue reading Contributing to open source at IBM Skills Network in 2019

ISOC is selling .org to a private equity firm

The Internet Society is selling the .org registry to Ethos Capital, a private equity firm. Such .org domains are typically used by non-profits, the open source community, and -- for ineffable reasons -- my blog. The function of a registry is to grant monopolies over specific domain names for a year. They can set a … Continue reading ISOC is selling .org to a private equity firm

Hiring Developer Interns for January 2020

My team is hiring a new cohort of paid developer interns in Toronto (Markham) for January 2020: Back End DeveloperFront End DeveloperCognitive Data Science Developer We have a great, friendly, supportive environment. Everyone on the team gets two big monitors and the peripherals to go with them. IBM Canada Lab has free snacks and good … Continue reading Hiring Developer Interns for January 2020