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Engine Yard Portland is open for business! »

Created at: 16.09.2011 19:57, source: Engine Yard Blog, tagged: News Engine Yard Portland

Earlier this month we moved into our new office space at 1009 SW Yamhill Street in Portland. After a couple weeks of getting everything set up, we're ready for guests!  If you're in the area, get in touch and come by for a drink, or to join us for lunch at the food carts.

New additions to the Portland ranks

Since first announcing the Portland office opening, we've also welcomed some new folks to the Portland crew. We're excited to welcome to James Rucker and Jim Lindley!

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James comes to us by way of Rentrak, where he hacked on analytics web apps for large datasets. He's a great addition to our cloud platform dev team. When he's not behind his laptop, you'll likely find him brewing beer or hiking the Gorge. We're looking forward to pitting his home-brewing talents against those of Jacob Burkhart, our resident brewmaster in San Francisco.

Jim is our newest engineer and is a recent refuge from the snowy wastes of the Northeast. Jim previously worked on automated media analysis, large scale video storage and processing, and most recently worked as a senior developer for the premier national college application service (yes, the same one many of you used once upon a time). Jim will put his years of Ruby and Javascript experience to good use as a part of our platform team -- working on tasks as diverse as fixing annoying Internet Explorer bugs, to increasing availability and reliability for server setups.

Come work from our couch

Now that we're settled into our space with wifi, desks, and comfy couches (modeled by Jim above), we're better set up to host. Last Thursday we christened the office with our first guests: Tim and Peter from Gemstone, and Nic and Jon from New Relic. Thanks for helping break in the couches, guys! If you didn't have a chance to meet Koichi Sasada at the pdx.rb meetup earlier this month, he'll be co-working from the office for another two weeks before he heads to RubyConf, and then home to Japan.

We're delighted to be settled in our new Portland digs. Thanks for making us feel so welcome. Don't be shy, come by and say hello! And, if you're interested in joining the team, we're hiring.

Why, Hello Portland! »

Created at: 26.07.2011 21:46, source: Engine Yard Blog, tagged: community cascadia ruby conf Engine Yard Portland OSCON

We’ve been longtime fans and supporters of the open source community. Many of our employees, customers, and partners hail from the thriving open source community in the Pacific Northwest. Today we’re excited to announce we’re opening an engineering office in Portland, Oregon. It also happens we’re hiring.

Join Team PDX

So far our Portland team includes Amy Woodward (me!), Brian Ford, Gerlando Piro and James Rucker. We’re also looking forward to Konstantin Haase and Koichi Sasada joining us for the summer. Konstantin is visiting us as an intern from Berlin, Germany. As a student, he is already an accomplished Rubyist and will be speaking this year at RubyConf. Koichi Sasada will be visiting us from Japan while on sabbatical. You may also recognize him as the author of the virtual machine used in Ruby 1.9.

We’re looking to hire a few more devs, so if you’re interested in joining the team, let us know. As always, we love people who are as crazy about open source as we are.

OSCON and Cascadia Ruby Conf

Speaking of open source, this week we have a crew in attendance at some community events in the Pacific Northwest. First, we’re in Portland at OSCON July 25-29, then we’ll head to Seattle for Cascadia Ruby Conf July 29-30.

If you’re at OSCON make sure to check out Wes Beary's fog talk and Charles Nutter’s JVM bytecode presentation. You can also find Brian Ford who can tell you anything you want to know about Rubinius and the first ever #rbxday taking place August 5.

If you’ll also be in Portland or Seattle, let us know. We’d love to meet up for a beer or two! Get in touch with us via Twitter.

At OSCON:
Wes Beary (@geemus)
Brian Ford (@brixen)
Charles Nutter (@headius)
Ines Sombra (@randommood)
Amy Woodward (@amywoodward)

At Cascadia Ruby Conf:
Shane Becker (@veganstraightedge)
Randall Thomas (@daksis)

Onward to Portland

We’re excited to continue to contribute to the vibrant open source community in new ways through our presence in Portland. And personally, I’m also looking forward to sampling all the local coffee, microbrews, and food carts Portland has to offer!

To learn more about openings at Engine Yard, check out our jobs page and apply. As always, next time you’re in Portland or San Francisco, let us know. We’d love to see you.