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Welcoming Vanja Pejovic

· One min read
Siggi Simonarson
Co-founder @ BuildBuddy

At BuildBuddy, our mission is to bring the world's best developer tools to every company. A core part of that mission involves building systems and infrastructure that can handle the scale of the world's largest enterprises. That's why we're so excited to share that Vanja Pejovic is joining BuildBuddy's engineering team.

Vanja joins us from Google, where he spent over 12 years as a Software Engineer. He brings with him his experience working on Google's internal RBE (remote build execution) system, Forge.

We look forward to working alongside Vanja to build the future of developer tools.

Welcome to BuildBuddy, Vanja!

Welcoming Fabian Meumertzheim

· One min read
Siggi Simonarson
Co-founder @ BuildBuddy

At BuildBuddy, our mission is to bring the world's best developer tools to every company. A core part of that mission involves building around the open source Bazel ecosystem to give every engineer fast, reproducible, and correct builds.

That's why we're so excited to share that Fabian Meumertzheim has joined BuildBuddy as a Staff Software Engineer. His contributions to Bazel have already greatly benefited BuildBuddy users, and Fabian will continue to focus on open source Bazel contributions in his role with us.

Fabian is a maintainer of Bazel's rules_go, gazelle, rules_jni, and with_cfg. He's also a regular contributor to the Bazel Slack, and has been the most prolific Bazel contributor over the past couple of years that's not currently employed by Google.

Fabian joins us from Code Intelligence, where he worked on building tools for fuzz testing.

We look forward to working alongside Fabian to build the future of developer tools.

Welcome to BuildBuddy, Fabian!

Welcoming Grace Chuang

· One min read
Siggi Simonarson
Co-founder @ BuildBuddy

To fulfill our mission of bringing the world's best developer tools to every company, keeping our business running smoothly is as important as ensuring our customers' builds run smoothly. That's why we're excited to share that Grace Chuang is joining BuildBuddy!

Grace joins us from Google, where she spent 5+ years working on Product Strategy and Operations. Prior to Google, Grace spent 3 years at J.P. Morgan.

We look forward to working alongside Grace to build the future of developer tools.

Welcome to BuildBuddy, Grace!

Welcoming Son Luong Ngoc

· One min read
Siggi Simonarson
Co-founder @ BuildBuddy

At BuildBuddy, our mission is to bring the world's best developer tools to every company. A big part of that mission involves building a team folks with deep industry experience helping companies build and scale their systems.

That's why we're so excited to share that Son Luong Ngoc has joined BuildBuddy as a Solutions Engineer. His work with Bazel at scale will directly benefit BuildBuddy users and customers.

Son Luong is a contributor to bazel, git, rules_go, rules_docker, bazel-gazelle, and more. He's also a regular contributor to the Bazel Slack and maintains an incredible blog that explains the inner workings of Bazel.

Son Luong joins us from Qarik, where he helped large enterprises with Bazel and scalable build infrastructure. Prior to Qarik, Son Luong was an SRE at Booking.com, where he helped scale their Bazel monorepo.

We look forward to working alongside Son Luong to build the future of developer tools.

Welcome to BuildBuddy, Son Luong!

Welcoming Jim Hollenbach

· One min read
Siggi Simonarson
Co-founder @ BuildBuddy

To fulfill our mission of bringing the world's best developer tools to every company, the most imporant thing we can do is hire incredible Software Engineers with experience building and scaling great software. That's why we're excited to share that Jim Hollenbach is joining BuildBuddy's engineering team!

Jim joins us from Google, where he was a Staff Software Engineer. He spent over 10 years at Google working across Search, Maps, and more.

We look forward to working alongside Jim to build the future of developer tools.

Welcome to BuildBuddy, Jim!

Welcoming Iain Macdonald

· One min read
Siggi Simonarson
Co-founder @ BuildBuddy

To fulfill our mission of bringing the world's best developer tools to every company, we're intensely focused on hiring outstanding Software Engineers. That's why we're excited to share today that Iain Macdonald is joining BuildBuddy's engineering team!

Iain joins us from Google, where he spent over 10 years as an engineer working across the company from Gmail to Google Maps.

We look forward to working alongside Iain to build the future of developer tools.

Welcome to BuildBuddy, Iain!

Welcoming Maggie Lou

· One min read
Siggi Simonarson
Co-founder @ BuildBuddy

To fulfill our mission of bringing the world's best developer tools to every company, we're expanding our team to keep up with our evergrowing customer base. That's why we're excited to share today that Maggie Lou is joining BuildBuddy's engineering team!

Maggie joins us from Thumbtack.

We look forward to working alongside Maggie to build the future of developer tools.

Welcome to BuildBuddy, Maggie!

Welcoming Brentley Jones

· One min read
Siggi Simonarson
Co-founder @ BuildBuddy

At BuildBuddy, our mission is to bring the world's best developer tools to every company. A big part of that mission involves connecting engineers across different companies, sharing knowledge, and keeping an open dialog on best practices.

That's why we're so excited to share that Brentley Jones has joined BuildBuddy as a Staff Developer Evangelist. His deep experience with Bazel at scale will directly benefit BuildBuddy users and customers.

Brentley is a maintainer of Bazel's rules_apple and rules_swift which contain Bazel's support for iOS, macOS, Swift, and more. He's also a regular contributor to the Bazel Slack, and the Bazel GitHub repo.

Brentley joins us from Lyft, where he was a Staff Software Engineer on their Client Tooling team. Prior to Lyft, Brentley was an engineer at Target, where he led their migration to Bazel.

We look forward to working alongside Brentley to build the future of developer tools.

Welcome to BuildBuddy, Brentley!

Welcoming Lulu Zhang

· One min read
Siggi Simonarson
Co-founder @ BuildBuddy

To fulfill our mission of bringing the world's best developer tools to every company, we're continually expanding our team to keep up with demand we're seeing from customers. That's why we're excited to share today that Lulu Zhang is joining BuildBuddy's engineering team.

Lulu joins us from Thumbtack. Prior to Thumbtack, Lulu spent 5 years at Google where she worked on Google Play, Project Fi, and Area 120.

We look forward to working alongside Lulu to build the future of developer tools.

Welcome to BuildBuddy, Lulu!

BuildBuddy v1.8.0 Release Notes

· 3 min read
Siggi Simonarson
Co-founder @ BuildBuddy

We're excited to share that v1.8.0 of BuildBuddy is live on Cloud Hosted BuildBuddy, Enterprise, and Open Source via GitHub, Docker, and our Helm Charts!

Thanks to everyone using open source, cloud-hosted, and enterprise BuildBuddy. We've made lots of improvements in this release based on your feedback.

A special thank you to our new open-source contributor:

  • Ashley Davies who contributed several pull requests to our Helm charts in order to make them easier to use in clusters that already have an Nginx controller deployed.

And a warm welcome to our three new team members!

  • Pari Parajuli who joins our engineering team as an intern who's currently studying at University of California, Berkeley.
  • Vadim Berezniker who joins our engineering team after 7 years at Google on the Google Cloud team.
  • Zoey Greer who joins us as a software engineer from the Google Search team.

We're excited to continue growing BuildBuddy and fulfill our mission of making developers more productive!

Our focus for this release was on reliability, performance, improved documentation, and making BuildBuddy easier to release and monitor.

Welcoming George Li, Head of Sales

· One min read
Siggi Simonarson
Co-founder @ BuildBuddy

To fulfill our mission of bringing the world's best developer tools to every company, we're building a team that's ready to work with the world's best enterprises. That's why we're excited to share today that George Li is joining BuildBuddy to lead our enterprise sales efforts as our Head of Sales.

George joins us from Looker where he served as Head of APAC Sales Engineering. He joined Google Cloud through their acquisition of Looker in February, having helped the company grow to a $2.6B valuation.

We look forward to working alongside George to build the future of developer tools.

Welcome to BuildBuddy, George!

BuildBuddy v1.2.1 Release Notes

· 5 min read
Siggi Simonarson
Co-founder @ BuildBuddy

Excited to share that v1.2.1 of BuildBuddy is live on both Cloud Hosted BuildBuddy and open source via Github and Docker!

Thanks to everyone that has tested open source and cloud-hosted BuildBuddy. We've made lots of improvements in this release based on your feedback.

A special welcome to our newest contributor and team member:

  • Brandon Duffany - Brandon is an ex-Googler and Cornell alumn who's worked as a software engineer on Google Assistant and Google Ads. He'll start off focused on surfacing better profiling and timing information to help users track down and fix slow builds!

Our focus for this release was on expanding access to BuildBuddy as well as improving scalability and performance.

We're also excited to announce that we're expanding the BuildBuddy Cloud free tier. BuildBuddy Cloud is now free for teams of up to 3 engineers in addition to being free for individuals open source projects of any size.