I joined Ephox back in May 2002 and over the past eight-and-a-half years have had the pleasure of working with some of the most talented, dedicated, passionate and supportive people I’m ever likely to work with. It’s been an incredibly exciting time doing my small part to grow the company from a small team in Brisbane, Australia, though some very tight times to a very rapidly growing team with offices on three continents that’s firing on all cylinders.

Despite that, the 23rd of December will be my last day with Ephox and I’ll be starting a new job in the new year. With Ephox doing so well and a rapidly expanding engineering team back in Brisbane having plenty of it’s own momentum to drive it forward without needing a CTO on the other side of the world getting in the way and some fantastic new folk really driving Ephox’s senior management to the next level it feels like a good time for me to hand over and go explore something new. Knowing the people who will be taking over from me I have every confidence that our partners and clients will continue to receive top rate service and I’ll be expecting big things from Ephox in the future.

My new focus will be outside of web content management and editors altogether, doing some high performance, low latency server side stuff in the finance sector. I expect to be completely out of my depth and can’t wait. That opportunity to be the complete novice on the team instead of the veteran and the steep learning curve that comes with it is a huge part of the reason I’m making the move.

To everyone involved with Ephox past and present, as well as all of the people I’ve had a chance to work with at our clients and partners, thank you so much for giving me such amazing opportunities, experiences and most of all wonderful memories.

I truly feel like instead of working in a job for the past 8 years, I’ve enjoyed having Ephox as a big part of my life. I hope every job can feel that way.