{"id":93527,"date":"2019-08-27T16:21:26","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T23:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/?p=93527"},"modified":"2025-07-22T08:39:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T15:39:14","slug":"welcome-fabian-senior-java-engineer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/welcome-fabian-senior-java-engineer\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome Fabian — Senior Java Engineer"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As the Backblaze team and products continue to expand we found that we needed more engineers to help us keep up with existing systems and build out news ones (and we\u2019re always hiring<\/a>, by the way). To help us, we hired Fabian to join our team as a senior java engineer. Let\u2019s learn a bit more about Fabian, shall we?<\/p>\n

What is your Backblaze Title?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Senior Java Engineer<\/p>\n

Where are you originally from?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jamaica<\/p>\n

What attracted you to Backblaze?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The warm and friendly culture, growth trajectory and the value of the services provided, especially when unexpected disaster happens.<\/p>\n

What do you expect to learn while being at Backblaze?<\/strong><\/p>\n

More about infrastructure and code required to provide these services.<\/p>\n

Where did you go to school?<\/strong><\/p>\n

MIT for my bachelors and masters degrees and then the University of Texas at Austin for another masters.<\/p>\n

What’s your dream job?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Great culture, great growth, the great value provided.<\/p>\n

Of what achievements are you most proud of?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Named inventor on 68 issued patents.<\/p>\n

Favorite place you’ve traveled?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hawaii.<\/p>\n

Favorite food?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I like a variety of food, but probably Caribbean food is my favorite.<\/p>\n

Star Trek or Star Wars?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Neither.<\/p>\n

Coke or Pepsi?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Coconut water :)<\/p>\n

68 patents is an impressive amount! Congrats Fabian and welcome aboard to the Backblaze team!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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