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_posts/2022-08-20-365-gitpods.md

··· 1 1 + --- 2 2 + title: "365 'podder days" 3 3 + image: "gitpod-365.jpg" 4 4 + --- 5 5 + 6 6 + On the 11th of August, 2021, the tab with my email client in my browser changed its title to indicate a new email. This would be an email that would go on to change my life. 7 7 + 8 8 + This email came from the CEO of Gitpod, Sven Efftinge, with a subject that simply read "Gitpod". It was an invitation to jump on a call with him to talk about a potential career at the company, and when I read it, my heart stopped. Then my heart started beating at about 200BPM and I had to think rationally. I settled on believing Sven is a busy man and had to have mistaken me and was actually wanting to contact someone else[^1]. I couldn't believe I would be able to get an offer from Gitpod, because I have been a really heavy power user of their SaaS offering for the past few months - therefore I was already a hooked superfan, so I needed no convincing for scheduling this initial call. 9 9 + 10 10 + In my response I spelled Gitpod as "GitPod", which makes me even more surprised that I got the job. 11 11 + 12 12 + I have taken a look at a potential career at Gitpod before, just out of curiosity, since I wished I could one day be able to work there[^2], making this a literal dream come true. If you told me a week before this email came in that I would be working for Gitpod, I'd call you crazy. 13 13 + 14 14 + <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Something great is happening 👀 <br><br>(you’ll see what soon)</p>&mdash; Φlip Tρni🇨🇿 (@filiptronicek) <a href="https://twitter.com/filiptronicek/status/1427540497573236737?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 17, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> 15 15 + 16 16 + Now that I joined and was officially a part of the company I thought only employed 2000-IQ senior software engineers who re-compile their kernels every Monday. Gitpod turned out to be… way different than expected. One-by-one I started to learn about all of my teammates and discovered that all of them were super-nice, kind, welcoming and supportive people in general. So nice in fact, that I'd for sure have no problem spending a week in Portugal with them[^3]. 17 17 + 18 18 + On the 17th of August, it has been exactly a year since I joined and I now believe that being employed can be not boring. Sorry for the Zoomer-ism, but Gitpod is very Git-pog [[1](https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Pog)] and everyday, I'm more excited to be doing the things I do there, and working on the things I work on. It's true that I get pretty easily excited, but try to excite me for a year straight and that's a tougher challenge. 19 19 + 20 20 + I would like to thank so many people from Gitpod for this terrific year that I'd end up copy-pasting our Slack server member list and my lawyer[^4] advised me not to do that. 21 21 + 22 22 + It's cool to see both myself and Gitpod grow and how different we both were back in August of 2021. Although I do not believe I have made any difference in how Gitpod operates, I think I have left a mark on those who I've interacted with over the last year: albeit negative or positive (I strongly hope that the negatives weren't too frequent :P). 23 23 + 24 24 + To summarize: I cannot believe I am where I am currently in my career. A seemingly out-of-the-blue email which turned into so many great things that I could never capture with words and one can only wonder how my life would be without. I am happy where I am and hope I can continue to create great stuff on behalf of this kumquat-colored company in the future. 25 25 + 26 26 + P.S. Since I work on open-source full time now (I really work on 0 private repos!), you can always find what I'm up to on [my GitHub profile](https://github.com/filiptronicek) (if you find any activity there not work-related, please don't tell on me). 27 27 + 28 28 + [^1]: No joke, this was really what I thought at first. 29 29 + [^2]: I got so scared seeing things like "engineering interview" that I wouldn't dare to ever apply. 30 30 + [^3]: I may or may not have actually done that and it may or may not have been the best week of my life [[1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QQKs3hFnMg)]. 31 31 + [^4]: I acknowledge that I do not have a lawyer

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