I became disillusioned with the sales engineering role after realizing that many operations people spent their time putting out fires instead of automating and improving. I joined Atlassian in 2008, where software development was undergoing a sea change in the right direction, focusing on Agile and Git. I'm now excited to join SingleStore, where companies like Google, Facebook, and Netflix prioritize handling massive data sets to make real-time decisions that delight customers. The goal is to build better, stronger, and faster applications with the Community Edition database, which can handle anything thrown at it.