Pepperdata Blog Pepperdata Profiles: Driving Front-End Development for 10 Years

“Leave your ego behind and recognize that everyone you’ll work with here wants to make the best product. It’s not about being right; it’s about building good products.” You were at Microsoft for six years, Jeremy. How, when, and why did the Pepperdata switch happen? The Pepperdata founders reached out to me in 2013. It was clear they were building a great team with a bunch of smart people. At this point, I was happy enough at Microsoft, but I wanted to change what I was doing. To be honest, I had realized that a big corporate place wasn’t right for what I wanted to do. I want to excel at frontend development. However, at Microsoft, I wasn’t experiencing much growth. Each day, I was increasingly getting worried about my technical skillset stagnating. I felt like staying at Microsoft would limit my knowledge base going into the future. I wanted to go somewhere where I could learn more, learn something different. When Pepperdata came along, it was perfect. What, precisely, is your role at Pepperdata right now? I lead the frontend engineering team. However, the structure we have at Pepperdata is pretty flat, in that there’s no hierarchical report structure. […] The post Pepperdata Profiles: Driving Front-End Development for 10 Years appeared first on Pepperdata.