A few months back, I posted on our Next Wave of Growth and our search for our next CTO.

We got flooded with resumes, but only one was sent to us by four different people we trust.

That resume was for Andy Parsons, and I’m thrilled that we were able to get him.  Andy joined us last week and has immediately jumped in and made an impact.

Andy is a perfect fit for us.  He has built mission critical infrastructure and applications that require massive scale.  He knows how to build large and super-fast databases and applications.  He understands complex algorithms and geotagging.

And perhaps most importantly, Andy has “start-up DNA” and shares our commitment to building something incredible.

I’m going to ask Andy to post here about what he’s up to and share some of the interesting challenges he’s tackling and successes that he and the team achieve.  Lots of exciting projects and process already…

Thanks to everyone who helped in our search and a special thanks to Cory and the team here .