Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 14:38:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: What Matt is doing now & Opportunities with Backplane Message-ID: <200005032138.OAA65175@apollo.backplane.com>
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This is both a heads up and a, well, ok, and a solicitation. I'll admit
it!
As many of you know I was a founder of BEST Internet, an ISP which was
eventually sold to Verio at the end of 1998. I've also been extremely
active in the FreeBSD community. Throughout 1999 I've been unwinding
from the BEST experience and starting in late 1999 my brother Ben
and I began looking for a new startup opportunity... that is, an idea
which we could build a company around. For the last few years Ben
had been a high muckity-muck at Macromedia doing business development
for their Flash! and other internet-related products. Between us
we believe we have the necessary experience to build a new company.
We came up with an idea and for the last several months have been working
on funding. We have started hiring. The idea may seem mundane at first,
but believe me it should be quite an interesting job from a programmer's
perspective. In a nutshell we will be doing a business-to-business
ASP-based billing solution. That is, handling the billing operations
for client companies. While we expect competition to grow in this area
as time progresses much of the current potential competition is using
a different focus then the approach we intend to take, and we think we
will do well in this area. I have plenty of experience in this area
as I was the one who wrote the provisioning and billing system for BEST.
The idea here is to create an ASP (i.e. web-based) solution that caters
to small and mid-sized companies - other ASPs, ISPs, or any company
which has a regular customer base.
As I am sure many Bay Area technology startups are doing, we are at the
point now where we need to flesh-out our engineering team. Programmers
are the most critical part of the team and at the moment we have two
(Me, and a guy named Matt Titus) ((pps if your name doesn't begin with
'Matt' it will not be held against you!). While I consider myself a
very good programmer, this project is just a tad bigger then two people
can handle.
So we are starting to look for C programmers to help build the support
libraries, CGI infrastructure for the web servers, database, and backend
programs (e.g. such as generating and printing invoices).
We will be using FreeBSD-4.x as the base platform for both the web and
database servers, backend servers, and so forth.
We will be based in EMERYVILLE (in between Berkeley and Oakland, just
over the Bay Bridge from SF) and any interested parties would need to
commute to Emeryville daily. Medium-level pay, good options, medical
benefits, and (I hope!) a good work environment are part of the deal.
We are looking to fill several full-time programming slots.
If anyone here is interested in exploring this opportunity, please
contact:
jobs@backplane.com
(which will get to my brother Ben, who is handling the search for new
employees). If you have any technical questions, email me directly
( dillon@backplane.com ). If you want to scream about me posting a
solicitation to -hackers, then scream at me ( dillon@backplane.com ).
We are also looking for a good web page designer -- taking one look at
what used to be my personal home page ( www.backplane.com ) should make
that fairly obvious :-).
This is a formal, professional employment opportunity -- a true
'silicon valley' startup (except not based in silicon valley).
Thanks Everyone!
-Matt
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