This month marks my third year anniversary with Heroku. It’s the longest I’ve worked at a single company and has been the greatest single career move I’ve made to date.

I’m extremely proud of what my company, and my open source communities, have been able to accomplish in the last 3 years. Here’s a glimpse of what my last three years looked like.

By the Numbers

It’s been a wild ride, and I can’t wait to see what the next 3 years will look like.

If someone asked me what life would have looked like when Gowalla got aqui-destroyed by Facebook, and I was out looking for a job in late 2011, I never would have dreamed things would have worked out as well as they have.

In the Future

I want to make more time for my family by speaking more domestically and taking less international flights (hint: I would love an invite me to your domestic conf in 2016). I want to be more involved with technical podcasts and other ways to reach the community that let me spend more time at home (hint: I make a great podcast guest. Message me to talk topic ideas).

I want to keep investing in code and the open source community. Even after 7 years of writing Ruby, I still love it and find wonderful little nooks to explore. I want to make the open source software I touch more usable and performant. I want to keep engaging and communicating. I want to build tools that empower and let others contribute. I want to keep pushing code to production that impacts millions of companies’ apps.

I want to build things for my home that delight and inspire. I want to change a bunch of poopy diapers and learn what it means to nurture another human being. I want to never sacrifice my health or my family for my job. I want to stave off burnout and find new ways to stay engaged and relevant. I want to show Ruby that I love her every day <3.

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