In the Scope: Devop

What's your callsign?

HeyManNiceShot

What is your OS Team/Division

Devop

Who are the members of this Team/Division?

Bamsen, LTC
Cutthroat, GEN
DirtyDozen, MAJ
HotFuzz, PFC
QuinoaAOC, COL

What does your Team/Division do in OS?

In short, we write and maintain the code behind the TAW web site that is there to service the member community and provide tools for the divisions to efficiently operate.

Devops (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DevOps) is an appropriate name for our division because it is our goal to create an environment where we can quickly and efficiently get updates and new features to the web site at high quality and stability.

Tell us your History in TAW

I originally joined up when playing Quakewars with some folks you might remember - Hook, Bravehardt, Icarus, Rhinehart, Dawnthorn and others. Yes I was the original rocket noob and changed my callsign to Beartooth for a while which befuddled the web site admins. After it leaked out I knew a thing or two about software and servers I ended up helping out with server admin for a while and then the new web site that was getting close to launching. With Icarus driving the project, the dev team I was part of took the site over the finish line. I took a break from Gaming and TAW for a while and then came back to see what was next in our evolution.

What made you decide to volunteer to work in this team/division

I have worked professionally in a number of fields and the most fascinating and technically challenging to me is software engineering. It is a lot of fun to be in the ground floor of a startup solving real problems. The TAW stock options are not great but if you don't launch on time at least you don't end up holding a sign out at the off ramp because your investors got cold feet.