Tyler Rooney has joined Unspace

posted by pete on June 25th, 2008

We’re a few weeks behind in announcing the newest addition to the Unspace team, Tyler Rooney.

We met Tyler at RailsConf 2007 in Portland, and he made an instant impression on us. Tyler is a Toronto guy who was living in Seattle and working at Amazon building Rails apps for internal use. With plans to move back for personal and family reasons, we started discussing a possible future with him back in October.

Immediately after RailsConf 2008, Tyler jammed all his worldly possessions into a car and drove across the US (making a stop in Minneapolis to meet up with RubyFringe speaker Dan Grigsby) to Toronto, and now he’s here with us. We love Tyler for his casual manner, sharp dress, and excellent taste in music. He also has some pretty fascinating stories about ordering and shipping, which you’d think would be kind of dry… but have you ever wondered what it takes to get Harry Potter to millions of people on a Saturday?

Tyler’s addition means there are now nine people in our little company. That’s the biggest we’ve ever been, and possibly the biggest we want to be.