Hello Chalkers, Josh here, the new guy!

It’s great to be speaking directly to you for the first time. I’m a big fan of being personal and up-front with our users and hope you will all get to know me well moving forward. And I couldn’t be more excited to be working with Stephen and Dave, two very trusted and talented allies.

As the technical co-founder on the team, I’m all about making this rig run. Sure, that’s going to include not-so-glamorous things like scaling, uptime, security, and abuse mitigation. But it also includes the really interesting stuff of building-out new products: fast and slick feature development, wide platform support, third party developer tools, and last but not least, listening closely to you - our rock star users - for what’s working and what’s not.

I come to BlockChalk from past gigs at Craigslist and Delicious, services to which I feel deeply honored to have been able to contribute. My experiences there will certainly inform my work here, but I’m also really looking forward to the new, uncharted technical and product innovation challenges BlockChalk brings to bear. And in many ways, we’re all going to be exploring that together. It’s gonna be a great 2010.

Cheers,
Josh