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We’re celebrating amazee.io’s 5th Birthday with a Virtual Panel and Q&A. So, mark your calendars. Take a guided trip down memory lane with the founders and early team members, plus an exciting look into amazee.io’s future! Join the online panel and celebrate this momentous occasion with us! 

As a fully-remote and globally distributed company, amazee.io is always looking for ways for our employees to connect with one another and share their interests. Yes, our Slack channels are filled with top-notch conversation starters (and almost-too-adorable pet pics), but sometimes you need to go beyond messaging apps for the fun stuff.

"Get to Know..." is a new blog series meant to share the stories of the individuals behind the scenes at amazee.io and help you get to know them a little better. Our people are really what makes amazee.io special, and we're excited to introduce them to you.

As the amazee.io Partner Manager, Bryan heads up our Agency Partner Program, coordinating day-to-day partner activities, as well as identifying and pursuing joint Go-to-market opportunities.

Martin likes being a bridge, using his technical education and background, combined with his communicative skills, to connect customers and engineering teams alike.

With a background in co-founding and running digital and web-startups, Tim’s a seasoned software engineer with several years of experience, who’s dedicated to supporting open-source projects whenever possible.

Blaize was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, but now lives in the small town of Paraparaumu in New Zealand. As an undergraduate, he studied classics, philosophy, and logic after which he completed his masters in cognitive science.

Jessica grew up on the east coast of the US and enjoys playing with nearly all aspects of technology. She spent a year learning Python and Java before joining amazee.io

AC is a product designer who uses human-centered design as a tool to find clarity in the ambiguous, calm in the chaos, and to create joy in the mundane.

With a decade of combined experience in marketing and journalism, Stephanie has a strong track record of educating users, driving lead generation, and increasing engagement. She has created content and marketing plans for a variety of industries, including technology, healthcare, staffing, food service, and cybersecurity, among others.

Jonathan has high-quality standards and a keen eye for detail. He’s proud of his ability to think ahead and see the big picture - to detect, understand and take action on IT needs; and he finds it very rewarding being a bridge between technology and people.

We’re a fully-distributed company that lives and breathes open source. As a close-knit team, we collaborate with colleagues in every time-zone to build and maintain the world’s leading open-source hosting platform as well as provide managed services and expert support 24/7 to clients of all shapes and sizes.

Born in Catania Italy, Salvatore has lived in many towns in Italy and abroad, but now he’s based between Sicily and Rome — mostly. He is an open-minded person with a strong passion for technology and innovation in all its forms. With over ten years of experience in remote work, Salvatore likes to call himself a remote work evangelist. He’s a software developer with strengths on the backend and Ops. He’s also a tech lover, sci-fi reader, movie enthusiast, and TED talk addict.

Previously, we discussed the general work culture at amazee.io. We discussed our approach to flexible work and our fully remote and unique culture. Now we are going to dive a bit deeper and introduce you to the people behind amazee.io. Today it’s the turn of two of our Systems Engineers – Thom and Bastian.

Born in Badulla, Sri Lanka, matured in Colombo, and now living in Melbourne, Australia, Chandana is a technical support engineer, learner, and problem solver. With a background in software and network systems support, Chandana works with systems engineers to support open source hosting solutions.

amazee.io is a fully remote, global team, building the world's fastest-growing Open Source Hosting environment. With flexible working hours and worldwide remote distribution from Auckland, Zürich, and on to California, what’s it like to work for amazee.io?

After ten years as a back-end developer, Alanna decided a change was in order. Still carrying a torch for Drupal, content management systems, and helping others, she is now working as a documentation writer, trainer, and developer advocate at amazee.io. Alanna also serves as a track chair for DrupalCon North America, is on the leadership team of Drupal Diversity and Inclusion, and serves the Drupal Community Working Group as an ambassador to Drupal Diversity and Inclusion.

Hailing from the Isle of Man, and having lived in Canberra, Australia for the last 18 years, Toby has had a wide and diverse career, mostly technology focussed, but with a few interesting tangents (ask him about them sometime!). He’s a long-time map, data and open source nerd, and he’s happiest talking to people about the tech he’s passionate about.

Driven by a global pandemic, the world is changing at a rapid pace which requires all of us to adapt, reassess and rethink our daily lives. We are adapting our private lives (eg. taking care of and educating our children while schools and daycare are closed, leveraging modern online technology to connect more frequently with family members and friends) and adapting our professional life as most companies have switched to working from home.

We’re delighted to announce Franz Karlsberger as CEO - he will take up the amazee.io reins on April 1st, sharing management responsibilities with Michael Schmid and Thom Toogood, and supported by Dania Gerhardt for financial planning.