06-09-2017, 10:46 AM
Better late than never to this thread...
Hi, I'm John! I was one of the founding members of MM, and graduated from JMU with a BS in Computer Science in 2002. My "career path" has been: Federal Government, Large Government Contractors, Small Government Contractor, Very Small Startups, Medium Startup, Entrepreneur/Co-Founder. I've bounced between pure engineering and management / executive roles a few times now.
I also worked remotely for a year, and literally traveled around the world with my girlfriend (13 countries in 12 months).
My last W2 job was as VP Engineering for a ~120 person ad-tech startup in NYC.
I left that job in Dec 2016, and co-founded a small consultancy called Symphonia (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="https://www.symphonia.io">https://www.symphonia.io</a><!-- m -->) in Jan 2017. We're squarely focused on Serverless architecture and technology (like AWS Lambda) with a large dose of DevOps and lower-case agile. We just published a short book with O'Reilly titled "What is Serverless?" (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.oreilly.com/programming/free/what-is-serverless.csp">http://www.oreilly.com/programming/free ... erless.csp</a><!-- m -->), and we've been speaking at a ton of conferences across the country (and soon, internationally). We're also moving heavily into the workshop / tutorial space, and we just spent two days in a studio recording a video training series titled "Learning Lambda" for Addison Wesley.
So, if you or your company is interested in learning more about the Serverless space, or want to level up your DevOps practice, or need some help figuring out how to shorten engineering lead times and accelerate delivery - drop me a line, "john@symphonia.io" or on my LinkedIn (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnathanchapin/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnathanchapin/</a><!-- m -->).
Conversely, if you're trying to break into the startup or tech industry in NYC (or Virginia), please get in touch. I've built up a pretty interesting network over the last 20 years, and am always happy to have a conversation and make sensible connections.
Hi, I'm John! I was one of the founding members of MM, and graduated from JMU with a BS in Computer Science in 2002. My "career path" has been: Federal Government, Large Government Contractors, Small Government Contractor, Very Small Startups, Medium Startup, Entrepreneur/Co-Founder. I've bounced between pure engineering and management / executive roles a few times now.
I also worked remotely for a year, and literally traveled around the world with my girlfriend (13 countries in 12 months).
My last W2 job was as VP Engineering for a ~120 person ad-tech startup in NYC.
I left that job in Dec 2016, and co-founded a small consultancy called Symphonia (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="https://www.symphonia.io">https://www.symphonia.io</a><!-- m -->) in Jan 2017. We're squarely focused on Serverless architecture and technology (like AWS Lambda) with a large dose of DevOps and lower-case agile. We just published a short book with O'Reilly titled "What is Serverless?" (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.oreilly.com/programming/free/what-is-serverless.csp">http://www.oreilly.com/programming/free ... erless.csp</a><!-- m -->), and we've been speaking at a ton of conferences across the country (and soon, internationally). We're also moving heavily into the workshop / tutorial space, and we just spent two days in a studio recording a video training series titled "Learning Lambda" for Addison Wesley.
So, if you or your company is interested in learning more about the Serverless space, or want to level up your DevOps practice, or need some help figuring out how to shorten engineering lead times and accelerate delivery - drop me a line, "john@symphonia.io" or on my LinkedIn (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnathanchapin/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnathanchapin/</a><!-- m -->).
Conversely, if you're trying to break into the startup or tech industry in NYC (or Virginia), please get in touch. I've built up a pretty interesting network over the last 20 years, and am always happy to have a conversation and make sensible connections.
My two feet.