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June 23, 2005

June 23 2005

Spunk, with an “L”

The projects at my new company, Splunk, are going so well that we need to hire another web guru, ASAP. If you are an expert PHP and MySQL coder, well-versed in OOP, have substantial experience building community sites, and are available for a 2 month contract in San Francisco, let me know. We’re also looking for QA and support engineers, among others.

We are a small startup, working on an IT solution that helps administrators find out what is going on in their data centers. Some call it a “Google for machine data”, others call it a “super-grep”. Whatever you call it, it’s damn cool.

And we’re in the same building as Al Gore’s TV station, Current TV. Ohmigod, ohmigod, ohmigod, ohmigod.



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  1. How about an Aerospace Engineer with two masters degrees who needs to get out of Texas??? You need one of those?? :-P

    Comment by Daria — July 19, 2005 @ 8:52 am

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