Assembeling the team part 1 ...

Lets take a bit of a flash back before the actual birth of the datacenter, some 3 years ago ....

I used to work in south east asia and was building datacenters for telco startups. I had a great experience working in one particular country and met alot of great friends. One person in particular, lets call him the 'datacenter hitman' was someone i worked with closely during the build of one of the bigger datacenters. We did alot of great work and had alot of fun.

After the completion of the datacenter build he returned back and i was asked to stay to do support on the networks and servers as a network/unix engineer. It was a great experience and i ended up staying abroad for just over 2 years. I lost contact with datacenter hitman and thought that i wouldnt get a chance to see him anymore as he also left the company we were initially both working for.

Out of the blue i got an email from datacenter hitman ! some 3 years after we worked together abroad. Datacenter hitman had called all the people in the phone book with my surname and had called the previous company we used to work for and eventually tracked down my email.

To cut a long story short, i gave him a call and we had a great chat, then eventually we caught up and had a beer, talk about old times and the progress we had made over the 3 years. I told him that i had ideas and was working with Garage BA on a project and thought that he would play a great role with his skill sets in assisting with the build up of the garage datacenter. After a few more beers and a couple more chats the idea for the application sounded better and better and datacenter hitman was on board. The team was growing and the idea was being brought to life by initial team. The garage datacenter team now consisted of Garage CEO, Garage BA and Datacenter hitman, the three of us were going to do great work and build something that we could be proud of ....