One year ago today I joined the Bluesky team
It's been an exciting, fun journey so far and I've learned a ton
I've never worked as hard in my life as I do here and I really enjoy the challenges of building @scale, distributed social on a budget.
Looking forward to what the next year has in store!
Some highlights of the year:
- Building out the (mini) datacenter in PoP1
- Hanging out w/ the team during team offsites.
- Growing a social network from 100k -> 6M users
- Building a scalable AppView V2
- Public Launch onboarding 850k users in ~24 hours contiguous of work, charts, and fire-fighting
Honestly sounds like the dream. I’m self taught in app development and network security but as of this year I’m making the journey to obtain official certs. Wrapping up A+ rn and then shooting for AWS.
Debating whether i want a future in development or security.