Friday 9/28 will be my last day at Sencha and marks 20 days until the birth of my daughter. I am departing Sencha to focus on family and return to working as a consultant and entrepreneur.

I have been extremely lucky over the past 7 years to work for some amazing companies (Adobe, Barnes & Noble, Sencha) and I have learned a ton about business and large scale software development in the process. Sencha has been a great experience working inside a world class, fast growth startup at the heart of HTML5. In my short time at Sencha, we focused on enterprise, delivered major releases of every product, added 30+ people to the company, and welcomed a ton of application developers to the platform. It has been a distinct honor to work at Sencha, build a great developer relations team, and work with so many amazing developers in the community.

As an evangelist I only advocate for technologies that I believe in and my path has included Flash, Flex, Android, and Sencha. In the case of Sencha, I am giving up employment to build services using Sencha as a platform. I am not sure there is a better validation of Sencha and given the large scale use of Sencha frameworks at Adobe, SalesForce, Cisco, Concur, Morgan Stanley, and many others; I know this is a very sound decision.

Having started-up straight out of college, I have yet to see an entrepreneurial climate as good as today. With a command line, I can launch hundreds of servers, leverage a ton of revolutionary code, and work with amazing people remotely. The costs of starting-up have literally fallen an order of magnitude in the past 10 years and executing projects has never been easier. During my time at NOOK, I launched 63 apps which turned into a solid recurring revenue business. This success enabled me to leap quickly to Sencha and with upcoming family changes has evolved into my return to being a consultant and entrepreneur.

Long story short, I am an entrepreneur at heart, I love solving problems, and I love building things. This change allows me to focus on family while executing on a project that has been burning a hole in my pocket. For now… family, family, family!

Regards,

Ted