Last October I celebrated a couple of milestones in my life:

• 5 years living in North Carolina;
• 2 years since I bought my first house;
• 11 years married to my wife;
• 5 years working for rPath;

Needless to say, each one of those milestones were very important to me as they mark important decision points in my life! Every single one of them changed my life for the better and I can’t help but feel blessed that I have so many things to look forward to at end of the year that remind me how lucky I have been!

Last week was my also an important day for me, as I was offered and accepted a job to work at Red Hat as a Senior QA Engineer for their CloudForms team! I assure you that it was a bitter sweet moment for me, for a really loved the work I had been doing at rPath. But the chance to work on Red Hat’s cloud initiative was too much of a temptation for me to pass! I have been truly blessed for having had the chance to join rPath 5 years ago at a point where they were still trying to establish themselves among the big technology providers out there. Five years later they’ve accomplished their goal and I can look back and feel proud that all the late nights, cancelled vacations and hard work paid off!

This December I get to work on a very exciting project with a great bunch of guys trying to accomplish a similar task! I am extremely excited about the potential that CloudForms and its derivatives will bring to the masses and I can only hope to be able to look back five years from now and be able to celebrate another job well done!

To infinity, and beyond!