In October of last year I made a small note that I had re-introduced myself to the Ruby ecosystem. It was a willed attempt to get some deeper parts of my mind working again after several years of working predominantly with tools that just weren’t doing it for me. Language and platform agnosticism has its place and benefits, but it was time for me to get back to digging a little more joy out of my work.
Once that decision was made, things began falling into place. I crafted a few tools and got my socks blown off by learning a little about behavior driven development.
I was then fortunate enough to pick up a job at Heroku, a shop that has changed the world of application delivery for the better. And it will continue to blow your mind. I promise. I’m focusing on ops engineering, helping craft an environment that lives entirely in AWS, implementing smart configuration management practices using tools like stem and chef, and building sharp, small-scoped components wherever possible. It’s challenging and I think that it will continue to push me hard.
The ops team is entirely distributed, so that’s a sweet perk. Because of that, my family and I can now relocate back to our home town of Oklahoma City. I’m really looking forward to connecting with the budding tech scene there. People are making things.
I am writing this on the airplane as I fly back from my first on-site visit with the Heroku team. I now know that I made the right choice to come aboard as I am now fully convinced that everyone in that building is smarter than I am. Which is great. I have something to aim for.
So things are good. Hope they are for you, too.