{"id":5767,"date":"2014-06-12T11:43:47","date_gmt":"2014-06-12T18:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/?p=5767"},"modified":"2025-07-23T07:14:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T14:14:43","slug":"candace-sails-her-way-to-backblaze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/candace-sails-her-way-to-backblaze\/","title":{"rendered":"Candace Sails Her Way to Backblaze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/blog_candace_560x280.jpg\" alt=\"blog_candace_560x280\" width=\"560\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/blog_candace_560x280.jpg 560w, https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/blog_candace_560x280-300x149.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"bzdropcap\">Let\u2019s welcome Candace as she joins Backblaze as a Senior Software Engineer, initially assigned to our Mobile Products group. Previously, she had worked with our CTO, Brian, and yet she still decided to join us ;-)<\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s your favorite hobby?<\/strong><br \/>\nI love both cooking and sailing. Over the last year I\u2019ve been working my way through the American Sailing Association certifications, I\u2019d love to be able to charter a boat.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you won the lottery tomorrow, what would you do?<\/strong><br \/>\nI\u2019m pretty happy with my life now. I think my post-lottery life would be just the same except with a catamaran.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where are you originally from?<\/strong><br \/>\nA tiny town in Wisconsin. I moved to the Bay Area when I was young, then moved back to Wisconsin a few years back.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why did you move back here?<\/strong><br \/>\nI\u2019ve missed the people here, the tech industry, the weather, the fresh food, the oceans, and the mountains. I even missed the fog. I\u2019m really looking forward to working with Brian W., Brian B., and Monika again.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How did you get into computers?<\/strong><br \/>\nI got a Commodore 64 when I was young. I remember writing simple games in BASIC and playing around with the turtle graphics. It seemed like magic.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where did you go to school?<\/strong><br \/>\nI have a bachelor&#8217;s of science in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where else have you worked?<\/strong><br \/>\nAt first I worked on video editing and search software (SGI and Virage), more recently I worked on bioinformatics software (DNASTAR and Roche NimbleGen).<\/p>\n<p>We look forward to having Captain Candace aboard the good ship Backblaze. 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