As of about a week ago, I am working for Kirix. Although doing this adds significantly to my already stupidly large workload, I still feel that it is worth the time. First of all, gaining real world work experience is absolutely critical to my long term success, and is something I have postponed for far too long.

Secondly, the work involved is really interesting, in line with my skillset, and flexible. While I cannot discuss what I'm doing in particular, Strata is a really amazing product. The best way to describe it is as a scriptable combination of Firefox and the MySQL Query Browser, but that really fails to do it justice. If you happen to need or want to do data analysis, you should download the beta and play with it.

Additionally, the particular project Alex Zelenskiy and I are working on is likely to be open sourced in the future, which makes me happy. Overall, I really couldn't ask for a better setup.

Posted on 2009-01-26, 19:29 0 Comments so far.