Welcome Elliot: Data Center Tech

Elliot

As we cross 750 petabytes and march towards 800, we need more people in the data enter helping us keep our over 100,000 hard drives spinning! To help us with that, Elliot came aboard! Let’s learn a bit more about Elliot shall we?

What is your Backblaze title?
Data Center Tech.

Where are you originally from?
San Francisco.

What attracted you to Backblaze?
The Strong Coffee….And working on PC’s is my dream job!

What do you expect to learn while being at Backblaze?
How to expand my server knowledge.

Where else have you worked?
Genentech.

Where did you go to school?
Bear River, Heald College.

What’s your dream job?
PC build and repair specialist.

Favorite place you’ve traveled?
Holland.

Favorite hobby?
Bumping my tunage.

Of what achievement are you most proud?
To be honest landing this job has been a dream come true!

Star Trek or Star Wars?
Both.

Coke or Pepsi?
Coke.

Favorite food?
Dim Sum.

Why do you like certain things?
Because I love being part of a team.

Anything else you’d like you’d like to tell us?
This job feels like the best decision of my life. I really appreciate everyone giving me a chance.

Welcome aboard Elliot. Thanks for coming along with us and helping keep our data centers running!

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About Yev

Yev Pusin is the senior director of Marketing and sometimes Marketing chief of staff at Backblaze, which he joined in 2011. Yev has a degree in business and communications from the University of Iowa, where he developed an alliteration affinity. Yev enjoys writing in an amusing way about the "why" of things and how decisions are made, so that readers can learn and be entertained all at once. Follow Yev on: Twitter: @YevP | LinkedIn: Yev Pusin