In my last post (first in a new blogging format outside of Drupal/Wordpress in more then a decade) I title the first post "new year new blog new you", mostly to signify to myself that I am moving away from Drupal as a blogging platform and re-engaging in learning new web technologies after spending my last 5 years focused heavily on Pantheon as a platform and OpenSource Web Frameworks like WP and Drupal as a the toolset... not knowing that I would end up changing companies and careers shortly. 

After 5(ish) really amazing years at Pantheon, I took an opportunity to join the Sales Engineering team at Datadog. 5 years is a really good amount of time at any company, and mine at Pantheon flew by. I worked with amazing people (many of whom are now close friends) and was incredibly lucky to be part of Pantheon's journey from ~30M in NNA to 100M+ in NNA - working closely with our customers, prospects and for most of the time, building out Pantheon's Strategic partner ecosystem. I am incredibly proud of the work we did, and I am sort of amazed to find myself no longer at Pantheon, I thought I would be there through Pantheon's full journey to being *the* indispensable platform for teams doing important work with open source web frameworks. 

You do have inflection at certain parts of journey, and much like my transition from Mediacurrent to Pantheon, I looked up for a moment and decided to see if there were other opportunities and or if I was on a path for another 5 years at Pantheon.  I feel incredibly lucky I did look... as I ended getting an opportunity to join Datadog as an Enterprise Sales Engineer.  More on that in another post.

New You = New at Datadog

The itch is always there to try new technologies and keep learning, even if I am not coding in my day to day work anymore. Moving from a Drupal based blog site (with very little in the way of Drupal's capabilities needed) to Next.js + Sanity on Vercel's free tier has been way easier then I expected and started me on the journey of learning Nexts framework and what Sanity is offering from a developer experience perspective. Hopefully as thoughts come and go, this might be a home for them, or at least some experiments in Next.

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