Team Taazza grows!

I am particularly excited to announce the next addition to our team as he comes from my alma matter! It has been a fulfilling experience hiring Palani Murugan. Palani comes to us from Thoughtworks and will be joining us a Senior Associate. He’s ruby code ninja and is passionate about Movies.  Here is Palani in his own words/pictures.

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Welcome hanuman on board

Image via Wikipedia

Things have been pretty busy for us here at Taazza, more people on-board (announcements in a few) and loads of work. But the workhorse that is helping do all the work is Hanuman, the SUN machine(x4150) that has been gracefully given to us by SUN Microsystems.  For those who don’t know Hanuman, he is a character from the Indian Mythology who personifies strength, belief & the will to accomplish things, something we expect from our server 😉

I have pleasant memories of SUN Microsystems, as it was the first UNIX machine that I started my career with. They bring strong R & D experience and support to our organization. I would like to thank Bakshish Dutta of SUN Startup Essentials for making this happen. They have been an invaluable partner and have been helpful in getting us started.

And trust me we are putting Hanuman’s strength to good use 😉 Our Hadoop clusters, crawlers are pounding the server pretty good.

The churn has begun.. Interesting times ahead 😉

Looking forward to a great partnership with SUN!

Hanuman took a great ride home from the shipping center (Indian style). I leave you with some pictures of his journey.