A little over 20 years ago, I moved out here to start my new job. On the one hand, it’s hard to believe it has been that long, but on the other hand, a LOT has changed in those 20 years.
Let’s take a quick trip back to 2006:
- Sites like Twitter, OneDrive, and Spotify did not exist.
- Not many people had heard of Facebook yet. It was only 2 years old and you had to have a college email address to join it.
- Sites like Digg and Reddit were brand new. Most nerds were getting their news via slashdot.
- The Blu-Ray and HD-DVD battle hadn’t even started yet.
- Microsoft stock was hovering around $20 and people wondered if it would ever move again.
I started out at the most junior level of software engineer and I started in the test org. After a few years of that, I become a first level manager and eventually helped ship much of what you now see as the Data tab in Excel and the Power BI editor experience. I then moved to Azure as a dev back when it was clear Azure was becoming a thing but “cloud computer” was still very new. Satya had just made his “mobile-first, cloud-first” quote. Fast forward to today and Azure is one of a very tiny number of hyper-scalers on the planet.
It has been wild to have a front row seat for this transformation that impacts not just the tech industry but pretty much everyone on the planet. It’s exciting to play a tiny role in a product that runs 911 call centers, operates rides at your favorite amusement park, handles huge portions of global banking transactions, serves you endless information from the web, and on and on. As if the cloud computing explosion wasn’t enough, now the demand for AI growth dwarfs anything civilization has seen before.
I’m extremely thankful for this job and the opportunities it has provided!
20 Year Workiversary
A little over 20 years ago, I moved out here to start my new job. On the one hand, it’s hard to believe it has been that long, but on the other hand, a LOT has changed in those 20 years.
Let’s take a quick trip back to 2006:
I started out at the most junior level of software engineer and I started in the test org. After a few years of that, I become a first level manager and eventually helped ship much of what you now see as the Data tab in Excel and the Power BI editor experience. I then moved to Azure as a dev back when it was clear Azure was becoming a thing but “cloud computer” was still very new. Satya had just made his “mobile-first, cloud-first” quote. Fast forward to today and Azure is one of a very tiny number of hyper-scalers on the planet.
It has been wild to have a front row seat for this transformation that impacts not just the tech industry but pretty much everyone on the planet. It’s exciting to play a tiny role in a product that runs 911 call centers, operates rides at your favorite amusement park, handles huge portions of global banking transactions, serves you endless information from the web, and on and on. As if the cloud computing explosion wasn’t enough, now the demand for AI growth dwarfs anything civilization has seen before.
I’m extremely thankful for this job and the opportunities it has provided!