The Cloudant team just got a little bit bigger. We’re super excited to welcome Bob Dionne (@bitdiddle) as our new Senior Software Engineer. Bob has been developing software for more than 25 years, and spent a significant chunk of that time at IBM. Since leaving he has built his own software company and, more recently, founded the consulting firm Dionne Associates. Needless to say, the man has serious chops when it comes to writing code, which is good because we’re going to be throwing a lot of hard problems at him. Bob is a true New Englander (with a wicked awesome accent to boot) and though he’ll be mostly working remotely, we’re looking forward to him joining us at the Boston office a couple times a month.

We (or I should say, I) first met Bob at the NoSQL Live Boston event. I was aware of his stellar work with CouchDB, where he focused some of his efforts on the etap testing framework. I was struck by his quiet thoughtfulness, and his readily-apparent passion for the project and the community. I feel privileged to have him join our team. So far, he’s been digging into BigCouch learning the codebase and helping us build up our testing framework. Over the coming months I’m sure he’ll be building and testing features for BigCouch and Cloudant and working very closely with Adam (our CTO) to make sure our hosted offering is a solid as possible.

Please join me in welcoming Bob to the team!