I stayed at Rackspace almost five years and then I founded ScaleFT with a group of friends who all at the time worked at Rackspace, and we started ScaleFT based out of our experiences at Rackspace around security, around how DevOps teams are operating in clouds, how do you make that more secure was our initial nugget. After CloudKick got acquired you stayed at Rackspace a couple of years, and then your next step, was that ScaleFT? There's a lot of experiences there that informed how I think about enterprise software. For how we went from Rackspace's origins as a managed hosting company, to trying to beat Amazon at building a public cloud. That was a really good experience where I worked in a mix of product development, product ownership and corporate strategy. At the time Rackspace was trying to build out its open stack cloud, so we really turned into one of the teams there that was building many different cloud products for enterprise customers. Paul: So CloudKick was actually acquired by Rackspace.
It turned into a enterprise cloud monitoring system, and that was my first exposure in a product company making enterprise software, versus just working on infrastructure. I had a long background in open source, and the Apache Software Foundation, and it was probably almost 10 years ago now that I got involved in a startup called CloudKick. I've always been in infrastructure, whether that was more operations side or more making software. As we get started I'd love to hear a little bit about your background and how you got into enterprise software.
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