Replace the sprawl with open-source software that works the way you want.On the menu:- understand your computers- manage everything in one place- make this your last MDM migration- fix vulnerabilities, not vendors- automate workCurrently limited to: macOS, Linux, Windows, Chromebooks, OT, data centers, and platforms like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud (GCP), and the Microsoft Cloud (Azure).Contributions welcome (even typo fixes):👩‍🚀 github.com/fleetdm/fleet

I created the Sails framework (aka Sails.js) to help my team build scalable Node.js projects for startup and enterprise customers. Then I made it free and open source for anyone to use. Since its release in 2012, Sails.js has become the leading MVC framework for Node.js, and one of the most widely-used web application frameworks in the world.See who's using Sails: https://sailsjs.com

I (accidentally) started Balderdash to build real-world use cases with Node.js. It began as a web and mobile studio with a focus on responsive design and realtime chat-like features.Over the years, I hired and collaborated with amazing people on all sorts of ideas and businesses, from startups to the Fortune 500. Balderdash took on bigger and bigger projects: larger timescales, more mature budgets, and advanced business+operational needs.Then, somewhere along the way, the open-source Node.js framework I built (only out of necessity) exploded (in popularity). At first, I thought it was a fluke with NPM statistics. I thought the people creating GitHub issues were new developers from past projects we worked on. But by 2013, it became unavoidably obvious. Turns out lots of people want to build robust, scalable apps APIs using only JavaScript. And they needed a Rails-like framework.In the space of a few months, we became "the company behind Sails.js".Every day we got to innovate on cool user experiences and solve tough Node.js technical problems for our clients. At night, we worked on the framework.Sails is free and open source software (FOSS), and by itself, that doesn't pay the bills. But the popularity of the framework brought a lot of attention, and some interesting professional service engagements. Meanwhile the open-source framework benefited from everything we learned. We worked on issues from thousands of different Sails/Node.js applications with every use case you can imagine. We made lots of mistakes. We learned loads; not just about open source community management, but about building software: security, performance, scaling, enterprise priorities, release management.In 2014, people downloaded Sails and our other open source packages hundreds of thousands of times. (Little did I know: by 2020, we would reach 50MM downloads/year.)That winter, we applied to Y Combinator.

Unwired made it possible for the hundreds of thousands of businesses that could never have afforded an effective mobile strategy in the past to launch their apps on Android, iOS, WebOS, and Windows Phone in a couple of hours. By working with SaaS partners, Unwired was able to maintain a laser focus on mass mobile deployment and enterprise messaging.I created the original build system that allowed us to scale to deploying hundreds of our customers' cross-platform mobile applications in Google Play, App Hub, and the App Store. Previously, I developed Unwired Message Center, a web product which leveraged our messaging API to allow customers to send rich, interactive push notifications to their mobile applications.I wrote a lot of PHP. A lot of JavaScript. A lot of Groovy. Grails. Zend framework. CakePHP. Jungle themed office. Some Tomcat. Some Apache. Lots of MySQL. Lots of ext.js, weirdly. Lots of Backbone.js. Lots of iTunesConnect. Lots of bash scripting. Some WebOS. Trip to India. Band breaks up.One day the CEO (a guy named Eric Smith) introduced me to Node.js.Love at first sight.

2 Hour Commitment's mission was to increase the number of volunteers serving the local community through convenient online service, affordable company rates, and a useable interface that benefits both volunteers and organizations.Our hypothesis was that there's power in "impulse volunteering." That is, that hands-on, low-commitment opportunities are the best way to maximize involvement. We built a social volunteering website and mobile app designed to create real, feet-on-the-ground volunteer hours through real-time social interactions.Building financial partnerships with hundreds of local non-profits, on the other hand, turned out to be an entirely more complex can of worms. It's really hard for a small 501(c) to think about adding real-time donations when they don't even have an in-house digital team in the first place. I realized what these organizations really needed most was help integrating better technologies, making smarter decisions, and getting things done much, much faster.

Blinktop was an augmented reality experience for realtime television: a bridge between old and new media that aimed to create value for advertisers, content producers, and most importantly, the next generation of TV consumers.Instead of concerning itself with PVR, Hulu, and Netflix content, Blinktop focused exclusively on what's on TV *right now*. Consequently, users were presented with a curated, contextual experience, tailored for a group of people seeing the same content at the same time.This real-time distinction allowed for more relevant chatting, tweeting, rating, sharing, and advertisements, as well as creating a valuable corpus of knee-jerk sentiment analysis data for our partners.

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HeyJukebox was a cloud music startup with a social web product by the same name. It allows users to upload their audio files in a variety of media formats and then play them back in an ITunes-like web interface (much like later services such as Google Music or Amazon Cloud Drive).HeyJukebox automatically parses ID3 tags from uploaded media, and downsamples the audio for more scalable storage. It also allows users to manage their libraries and edit track meta-information in-browser.

Starbucks had an excellent training program that taught me customer service lessons I still rely upon today.