Full Circle and Ramping up at Iron.io
Iron.io was recently acquired by Xenon Ventures, a private equity, and venture capital firm. Xenon Ventures is headed by Jonathan Siegel, a serial entrepreneur who has founded many popular software services and has made just as many successful acquisitions.
Here comes the full circle. What may not know, is that Jonathan was Iron.io’s first customer and investor back in 2010 prior to Iron.io’s creation. Jonathan was client and friend of the founders’ consulting business prior to Iron.io and encouraged the founders to transform their consulting service into a product.
In 2011 the first version of IronWorker was launched and the serverless revolution began. After pioneering this space, Iron.io has grown significantly adding products like IronMQ, IronCache, and our latest development of our Open Source product, IronFunctions. This success is due all of our amazing customers and partners! Thank You!!
New and old faces
You may be seeing a new name fly around a bit as well. I’ll (Dylan Stamat) be joining Iron.io as General Manager and moving Iron forward. A little about me: I’ve been a personal friend to the founders, I was a co-founder at RightSignature (https://rightsignature.com), founded one of the first HIPAA compliant companies to run on AWS (https://verticalchange.com), was previously the CTO at a large technology consultancy company (ELC Technologies), a Ruby on Rails contributor, a committer to Ehcache, and a big fan of Erlang and Golang.
You will also see and hear from many other familiar faces at Iron.io – Roman Kononov, Director of Engineering who has been leading our engineering office in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan since 2011. Nikesh Shah, Director of Business Development and Marketing, and other various new and old members from our globally distributed teams.
Roman Kononov and Rob Pike (with an awesome jacket) at Gopherfest.
As of now – we’ve added 2 new offices to Iron: one in Las Vegas, Nevada, the other in Tokyo, Japan. We’ve hired new Engineers and Customer Success and are continuing to hire. Let us know if you have any interest in joining our team!
What’s to expect moving forward?
New graphs providing quick ways to visualize historical worker concurrency
The short answer is, things are going to get a lot better. We’ve been very busy since the acquisition. There have been a lot of bug fixes, improvements to internal tooling, and we’ve added concurrency graphs to help provide more insight into the system.
Near term, we are committed to continuing and ramping up development in our entire product line. This includes better performance and reliability, a new user interface, granular metrics reporting such as concurrency graphs, streamlining customer support and putting new systems in place to better track feature requests and bug reports, and bug fixes throughout our web applications.
Long term, as it relates to products, we are being guided by 2 core principles:
Open Source, and Hybrid Cloud Deployments.
I’m excited about the future, and getting to know all of you! We will have more exciting news to announce in the coming months. Please feel to reach out to us and stay tuned!
Dylan Stamat
GM, Iron.io
