{"id":146607203,"date":"2023-05-24T15:31:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T15:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danconn.dev\/blog\/2023\/05\/24\/one-door-closes-another-one-opens\/"},"modified":"2024-07-28T10:41:23","modified_gmt":"2024-07-28T10:41:23","slug":"one-door-closes-another-one-opens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danconn.dev\/blog\/2023\/05\/24\/one-door-closes-another-one-opens\/","title":{"rendered":"One door closes another one opens"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A forced farewell at Sonatype means a massively awesome hello to Trustpilot<\/h2><p>You may have heard the, now public information, on what went on at Sonatype in early May, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2023\/05\/10\/sonatype_job_cuts\/\">as reported in The Register<\/a>. After a small time there I was sadly let go from Sonatype, along with other fantastic people in a series of job cuts. <br\/><br\/>I don\u2019t really wish to dig too deep into this. FWIW I made some great friends there, and although the past month has been, as I\u2019m sure you could imagine, hugely stressful, there is now light at the end of the tunnel!<br\/><br\/>I start work at Trustpilot on 1st June 2023 as a Senior Platform Security Engineer! This is something that hugely excites me and I hope I can make an impact there. I\u2019ll be working under CISO Stu Hirst who is someone I\u2019ve wanted to work with for a long time. Platform Security is a fusion of Application Security and Cloud Security &#8211; I think the skills I learnt during my time at Mimecast will come in handy, for sure! I am very excited and thankful for this opportunity at a company that seems very wonderful.<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/danconn.dev\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/1ec88bb5-1c5d-4fbb-a38a-8cab6edbc17e_1079x1079.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"424\"\/><\/figure><p>As for Sonatype, if I\u2019m honest, the letting go was a relief. While I loved speaking on a variety of topics at some fantastic locations across Europe, I did miss home quite a bit. I think towards the end it felt quite hard.<br\/><br\/>For example that final few weeks I <a href=\"https:\/\/danconn.substack.com\/p\/london-marathon-2023\">ran the London Marathon on 24th April<\/a>, then flew the next morning to DevOps Days Geneva to do a talk on my experience of incident response on the fly on 25th April. Then I flew back to go speak at Cardiff University about Maven vs Gradle on 3rd May and then spoke about quantum computing at Devoxx Greece on 5th May. This was probably a lot more travel than I\u2019d really bargained for and was missing being at the coalface too.<br\/><br\/>This is also why I\u2019m really excited to get cracking at Trustpilot too. Being able to put my skills to good use once again. <br\/><br\/>Btw please forgive me for not writing up about DevOps Days Geneva and Devoxx Greece &#8211; obviously I\u2019ve had a lot going on but I\u2019m also waiting for their videos to be published. Once they\u2019re up I\u2019ll write them up!<\/p><p>Till the next time and here\u2019s for the future!<br\/><br\/>Dan<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A forced farewell at Sonatype means a massively awesome hello to Trustpilot<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147072106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[30,31,32],"class_list":["post-146607203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-musings","tag-redundancy","tag-sonatype","tag-trustpilot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danconn.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146607203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danconn.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danconn.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danconn.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danconn.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146607203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/danconn.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146607203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147072234,"href":"https:\/\/danconn.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146607203\/revisions\/147072234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danconn.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147072106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danconn.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146607203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danconn.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146607203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danconn.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146607203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}