So, secretly, in spite of not saying anything about it on here, I’ve spent the last two months or so jobhunting. The whole process was definitely exciting and fun experience, but also really exhausting and stressful, so I’m glad it’s over. All in all, I applied to 9 companies, interviewed on-site at 7, and received offers from 6. So, a pretty good take, I suppose, and definitely very self-validating.
I want to try and pull some comments together on the process at some point, but for now I’ll just talk about the job itself.
On Wednesday, I accepted a position with MokaFive, in Redwood City, CA. I’ll be working in the Office of the CTO, under John Whaley. We haven’t finalized my start date yet, but it’ll likely be late July or early August.
MokaFive, of course, isn’t a Facebook or a Google, and not many people have necessarily heard of them. So, in a buzzword-loaded sentence, MokaFive is selling distributed, centrally-managed desktop virtualization. Phew! Let’s try to do that with a few more words.
Let’s say you work in IT at a company. And, like most companies, you have some software you want your employees to be able to use. But for whatever reason, people want to use their own computers instead of yours – maybe you’re just not providing them with a computer because they’re a short-term contractor, maybe it’s personal preference. But managing software on a heterogeneous environment like people’s personal computers is basically impossible.
MokaFive’s platform lets you wrap up that software in a VM, which your employees can then download and run on any platform – Windows, Mac, or Linux. You keep the ability to centrally manage those VMs, but your employees can still use them where they want, when they want, and without needing internet connectivity.
The point, though, is that I’m really excited about MokaFive, because the company is basically tailor-made for my background, and lets me keep doing the sorts of virtualization stuff that I’ve been doing.