Upholding the Open Web with PaaS: An Interview with Mozilla’s Chris Turra
May 3, 2013
Grazed from Wired. Author: Isabelle Groc.
Just a few blocks away from ActiveState’s office in downtown Vancouver, Mozilla web operations engineer Chris Turra is working hard to fulfill his organization’s mission to keep the web open. Working with his California-based colleague Brandon Burton, Turra is implementing Stackato private Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) technology at Mozilla to help his (now-teenage) organization deploy web applications at scale.
Born and raised in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada, Turra is passionate about technology and coffee. He packs his own beans when he travels, and he is an expert when it comes to the nuances of espresso-making. Today he spills the beans about the Mozilla PaaS flavor and talks about the ingredients for achieving success with a PaaS…
What brought you to Mozilla and what do you love about it?
I started my career at a large financial organization, it was a great experience, but it was not the place for me so I moved to the startup world, working for Sxip Identity. I then joined Ping Identity where I built most of their initial cloud infrastructure for an IDentity as a Service platform, and I left and joined Mozilla just over a year ago. I love it, it is by far the best job I have ever had. The problems we get to solve are quite unique and the openness is amazing. I get to work with some of the smartest people in the industry. [Mozilla] is a great place to learn…
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