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[Brian Cardarella](https://twitter.com/bcardarella) became\n+known within our dev team as the one who wrote\n+[ember-validations](https://github.com/dockyard/ember-validations),\n+which we were using in our application. [Robert\n+Jackson](https://twitter.com/rwjblue) was another name that kept popping\n+up on my Twitter and GitHub feeds. Call me a nerd if you will, but I was\n+as excited to have The Robert Jackson accept a fix that I submitted to\n+[ember-dev](https://github.com/emberjs/ember-dev) later that year to make builds\n+pass on Windows (with Rake at the time) as I would have been meeting a film celebrity.\n+\n+DockYard further reinforced its reputation by organizing the Wicked Good Ember\n+conference in Boston in June of 2014, which I of course attended.\n+\n+Needless to say, when Brian reached out to me last July about joining the team, I\n+saw it as an opportunity that was really hard to pass on. Logistically,\n+I may have been better off staying where I was. I had a 40 min commute.\n+Joining DockYard would have doubled my commuting time. I was also\n+comfortable with the position I was holding, building out cool D3.js\n+charts with Ember, leading the development of new products, and getting\n+myself involved in all kinds of engineering team growth efforts. But\n+then there was DockYard. I went with my gut feel instead and left\n+the warm and comfortable seat to face the exciting, though new and scary that was\n+DockYard.\n+\n+Scary? Yes. From everything DockYard had done to the Boston community\n+and the talent behind its wheel, I was absolutely terrified of not\n+fitting in, that it was too elite for me. I checked out the team page on\n+the website and read everyone's biography a number of times,\n+trying to picture what kind of co-workers I would be interacting with\n+daily. No matter how great the projects can be, culture is a big thing.\n+To my delight, the culture at DockYard is one that resonates the\n+most with me in my 10 years of professional career.\n+\n+DockYard has a well-balanced team of young, bright minds and more\n+seasoned developers, and I embrace that. There is none of that \"I am\n+better than you\" bullshit. Those I once viewed as Ember gods and would\n+have been intimidated to talk to have been incredibly supportive and encouraging.\n+In the past, whenever I was involved in the hiring process for\n+Engineering, I had always wondered where all the great developers were.\n+Well, they're here, happily employed at places like DockYard. If there\n+is one thing I can say about the company, it's that it's doing something\n+right to attract an amazingly talented and diverse crew. I've been\n+particularly impressed with our designers. It's nice as a developer to\n+work on such nifty UIs!\n+\n+Doing consultancy work was new to me, and I had been warned about what I was\n+throwing myself into, that I'd end up losing focus on quality and just\n+hack solutions together quickly to meet client deadlines. I don't doubt\n+that those kinds of situations can creep up, but so far, I've found\n+quite the opposite at DockYard in the two projects that I've been\n+involved in. People care deeply about delivering clean, maintainable,\n+and well-tested code, and they've been especially skillful at maintaining those\n+principles throughout the life of a project.\n+\n+It's also refreshing to be able to work on a diverse portfolio of\n+projects. The first few months of joining DockYard, I worked on an Rails and Ember app\n+that incorporated some really cool geolocation functionality. 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