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Introducing Drew and SF Meetup

By Drew Fisher - 04 May 2015

Hi! I’m Drew Fisher, and I’m thrilled to announce that I’m the newest sandcat on the block! I’ll be working on various parts of Sandstorm’s software platform, developer tools, and user experience.

A little bit about me:

One of the reasons that I find Sandstorm so compelling is that I care deeply about security and privacy, but also about making delightful user experiences. These goals are frequently in conflict with each other, but Sandstorm is remarkable in that its design enables us to provide real security – isolation between orthogonal concerns, sandboxing, protections against whole classes of attacks – while also making that security useful and meaningful to users, by staying out of the way of user workflows, minimizing cognitive load, and capturing user intent instead of asking tons of questions.

Meetup on May 7

I’ll be at the first Sandstorm Meetup this Thursday, May 7, in San Francisco, so if you’re in the area, come visit the Thoughtworks office at 315 Montgomery from 6pm - 9pm! I look forward to meeting some new faces!