In 2024 I made a career decision I had previously avoided: I was going to move into people management. I had toyed with this idea for most of my career, but felt I needed a combination of the right environment and personal...
Over the last six months, I’ve spent a lot of time in the Tailscale community - helping users debug issues, answering questions about how we sell the product and explaining, repeatedly, how we think about the business behind it.
Every year, I gear up for “conference season,” which includes KubeCon NA (typically held between mid-October and mid-November) and AWS re:Invent, always the week after Thanksgiving in the US. As a sales engineer, this time of year is exhilarating. It’s a chance...