The next chapter
I’m finally done exams.
So what am I doing for the summer? Starting on May 1st, I’m starting employment with Shotgun Software. Their website is not very informative, but it does explain why it is lacking in information, in a way. Without revealing too much, they basically have this gigantic ruby on rails webapp which is intended to be a private site for a company to run on their intranet or out on the internet with no public access. It is targeted at 3d animation studios to help them manage the massive amounts of assets and other massive amounts of “stuff” that needs to be managed for a high production-quality 3d animation. Everything is very relational; the ruby on rails code (at least when I was working on it) had tons of polymorphic model objects and HasAndBelongsToMany relations. It got confusing.
I worked with them two summers ago as a ruby on rails developer, which was a very rewarding job. I’ve kept in touch with them, and I’ll be working again. But, this time I will not be a developer.
This summer, I’ll be working under Chris Opena who is shotgun’s official Security/IT guy. This is a bonus for me since my specialty is in security. I haven’t got many details about what I’ll be doing as soon as I start, but Chris has alluded to things: He’d like to assign me a security related task, and an infrastructure related task. I look forward to both. Perhaps I’ll go into it when I find out.
