[TriLUG] have a job, need a job

[Greg Brown via TriLUG]

> Or... if you're hoping to find a talisman to effect a corporate takeover
of your company, apparently I have a knack for that, too!

Step 1:  Start up a company in the garage.
Step 2: Convince Alan to work at said company.
Step 3: Be acquired and profit!!



On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 10:54 PM, Alan Porter via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> Two years ago, I stood up in front of the group, showing off my shiny new
> Oracle employee badge and asked if any of you could help me get rid of it.
>
> Soon after, I did find a new gig at Lancope, an established network
> security company with a small start-up "cloud team" here in the Triangle.
> We had a good run for a year... we made a proof-of-concept cloud-based
> security monitor, and I learned a lot along the way.  I got to work on
> everything from our Linux-based network VM appliance to our back end REST
> server to our Angular web UI to our cloud deployment system.
>
> Now that is what I call "FULL stack development".
>
> Call me lucky, but Lancope caught the attention of Cisco, and now I have a
> shiny new Cisco employee badge!  Don't get me wrong -- if you're going to
> be acquired by a big company, Cisco is a hundred times better than Oracle.
> At least people don't pity you when you tell them where you work!
>
> But in the process of being acquired, our start-up project has been
> moth-balled, and we're now just a part of another larger Lancope/Cisco
> project.  All of the stuff that was appealing about working for the small
> autonomous start-up team has sort of dried up.  There's still work to do,
> but it's not what I was looking for when I left Tekelec/Oracle.
>
> So again, I ask the crowd if they know of any cool projects that could use
> a Linux hacker like me.  Although I've done embedded systems and device
> drivers and even made internet-connected ovens, these days I tend to lean
> more towards full stack web development, a little stronger on the back end
> than on the front.  The reason I like smaller projects is that you get to
> work on both, and then some.
>
> Or... if you're hoping to find a talisman to effect a corporate takeover
> of your company, apparently I have a knack for that, too!
>
> Either way, look me up at http://AlanPorter.com/ .  You'll find my resume
> and a bunch of other rubbish there.
>
> Thanks for listening.  See y'all at The Frontier on Thursday night.
>
> Alan
>
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