Due to a personal loss in my life, I took a few months of sabbatical to get through it. I got through the holidays with support from my family and friends. It was hard but as the year turned around, I had to move on with my life.
I had a very interesting tenure at Serverless.com and I was looking for a more close interaction with customers at large enterprises. I wanted to remain hands-on technically, but not become a code monkey. I wanted to work on a variety of enterprise use cases yet did not want to become an “on-the-road-Mon-to-Fri” consultant. I wanted to ideally work remotely and travel occasionally.
As you can imagine, the surface area of my job search was pretty small, but I was confident that I will find a company that I like and a job that I would love. I have always found the right job in the past.
After several rounds of interviews and spending the holiday season wondering if I will land the job, I was happy to get an offer from Docker Inc. I always wanted to work for Docker. I was well versed in the technology since 2014 when I worked at CenturyLink, building several Docker-based projects including Panamax.io, Lorry.io, and ImageLayers.io. Needless to say, I was elated to be part of a company that I closely followed since its early days as a startup.
I joined Docker on Feb. 5th, 2019 as a Solutions Architect for the East/Canada region. I am part of an amazing organization with great leadership and optimal transparency. I met with some of the brightest people that are humble, hard-working, and smart. Looking forward to working with them all.
The most exciting part of the work would be helping customers modernize traditional & legacy Windows applications by containerizing and deploying them on the Docker Enterprise platform. I had not worked on containerizing Windows apps before so I am really excited to take up the challenge. I hope to blog about my experience and challenges very soon.
If you are interested or working with Docker technologies, I would love to chat with you. I will be at DockerCon 2019 (ask me for a discount code if you are interested in attending) and we could meet there as well. Ping me on twitter.