Ahmed Shaker · Senior Director of Publishing Technology

Interesting. So, moving to the US: I'm from Egypt, and during my stay in Egypt, a group of friends and I had our own little shop where we used to support startups around the world with all their technology needs when it comes to infrastructure work, DevOps work, even predating the word DevOps, predating cloud. And one of my specialties was building private clouds before the word cloud was also pretty cool. I've been in this field for quite some time. And moving to a new place, I wanted to find a cool story to attach to. And job hunting, I'm out in Texas trying to find something really unique, and I stumbled upon one of the DevOps positions in Star Citizen. I still remember, I met Francesca a few days ago, and I was remembering when I first sent the cover letter. Back when I was in Egypt, I had one of my clients that was a gaming studio, not anywhere near the size of CIG, but it was one of my favorite clients to visit, because you get to see so many aspects when it comes to computer science. And you also get to see the artistic aspect. That is not really something you find in a lot of other clients when it comes to people that would use infrastructure. So I applied for many jobs and I hoped that this would be the one. And I think a few hours later, I got a phone call. I think the cover letter made an effect. And I think a week later, I was meeting with the team for our first interview, and the journey started from there. In between, I got to consume a lot of video content. I mean, at that time, and still till now, we like to share a lot about our vision. And it was fascinating to see that there is a vision to create an MMO with high fidelity, cloud based, with the latest and greatest technology. And I like being on the bleeding edge. I like challenges. So it kept going from there.