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When Netlify asks you to full-time OSS, you say yes!

Ryan Carniato on May 23, 2022

Well, there it is. I'm ecstatic to announce that, as of today, I’ve joined OSS Team at Netlify as a principal engineer. Yes that's right - Netlif...

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K-Sato • May 24 '22 • Edited

Congrats!!!

const vercelRichHarris = Vercel + Svelte
const  netlifyRyanCarniato = Netlify + Solid

const futureOfWebIsBright = vercelRichHarris * netlifyRyanCarniato

gjorgivarelov • May 23 '22

Congratulations! No small feat! That intro video on SolidJS with all its visuals and voice over, very well done. Though am not a web developer, this poked my curiosity.
Svelte was mentioned as a comparison during the explanation of what SolidJS does, any plans for a joined project with Svelte team?

David Di Biase • May 23 '22

I doubt that would happen. Svelte and Solid don't have similar paths/philosophies.

Liviu Lupei • May 24 '22

Congratulations! Sounds like an awesome job.

This is an approach I've seen in the industry.

Large for-profit corporations dedicating resources to open source solutions.

But these corporations are all about... the profit, of course.

So, it's no secret that their goal is to market and promote their products on the back of these open source solutions. And this is perfectly fine, as long as they keep those open-source solutions free of bias.

Because I don't want to ever read in the docs of an open source project something like "But if you want this in the cloud, it's best to use a product like Netlify.".

Félix Paradis • May 25 '22 • Edited

Reminds me of what Gatsby and Gatsby Cloud became 😆
* cries on his Gatsby projects *

Liviu Lupei • May 26 '22

Great example.

Chidiebere Chukwudi • May 25 '22

ikr?!

Iain Simmons • May 23 '22

Congrats! Very well deserved and a perfect fit for that team and organisation.

I think this will benefit us all and OSS in general.

I'm even more excited for the future, and especially for Solid.js and Solid Start.

Andi Rosca • May 23 '22

Congrats, been following your development of Solid JS closely for a couple of years. Definitely deserved

Charles F. Munat • May 25 '22

Congratulations, Ryan. Awesome news and well-deserved. And great news for the community, too.

I've been a fan and supporter of Solid since well before v1 and have used it in apps, though none have yet gone into production (mostly POCs -- persuading companies to abandon React is very difficult, sadly). I'd like to use it more, but what's stopping me is that I'm now focusing on Deno (and Deno Deploy) in my personal projects. I was even looking at Solid's source code last week and wondering how hard it would be to simply duplicate the parts I needed for my own app (answer: too hard).

So I hope this means that Solid will soon be fully integrated with the Deno ecosystem. That would be a real winner, I think. (Note: Deno Deploy uses Netlify Edge Functions.)

Keep up the good work. I've been reading several of your more detailed discussions of reactivity and rendering lately and getting much smarter. So thanks for that.

peerreynders • May 25 '22 • Edited

FYI:

cody lindley

@codylindley

I didn't know if I had another book in me but I started outlining a @solid_js enlightenment book this past weekend. I think it might have legs!

17:19 PM - 25 May 2022

Etienne Burdet • May 23 '22

Congrats! So excited for SolidStart especially!
Well, well, Rich Harris at Vercel, @ryansolid at Netlify… I SEE PATTERNS!

Nick Taylor • May 23 '22

Congrats Ryan and welcome to the team!🥳

Damian Żygadło • May 23 '22

svelte went with vercel
solid went with netlify
nice

peerreynders • May 23 '22

Congratulations!

Raul G • May 24 '22

Congratulations Ryan! This is so awesome!

I love seeing how far you've gotten with your project. And now with all your time dedicated to support SolidJS and its ecosystem, and also knowing everything you're capable of, I only see this step as the beginning of an amazing journey that will change the future of web development.

Stefan Kopco • May 23 '22

Uhh nice, congrats 🎉
I guess the Jamstack is now even more jam-packed 🙃
Looking forward to see more SolidJS awesomeness 💙

Alex Lohr • May 23 '22

Congratulations, Ryan, on that position that we deserve you to be in. And congratulations to netlify for having you. I'm eager to see what comes next.

Beto Muniz • May 23 '22

Congratulations Ryan 👏

Nikos • Aug 23 '22

great news

Ender Bonnet • May 25 '22

Congratz! Amazing position!

kirschd • May 25 '22

Congrats Ryan, we’ll deserved.
This sounds very exciting and reading your post, I am especially interested in seeing how edge compute/deploy tools will evolve more.

Andrew Baisden • May 25 '22

Awesome congratulations!!!

Randell Knight • May 24 '22

Incredible! 🎉 I look forward to seeing what you accomplish with the backing of Netlify. 🎓 Congrats, Ryan.

Danny • May 24 '22

Great news! Congrats ryan!

Ricardo Sueiras • May 23 '22

Nice!

Sanjeev Sharma • May 23 '22

Congratulations, @ryansolid! :)

Khokon M. • May 23 '22

Congratulations man!

James 'Dante' Midzi • May 23 '22

Congratulations!

Sergey Samokhov • May 23 '22

Congrats! 🎉 Go Ryan and go Solid!

Diego (Relatable Code) • May 23 '22

Congratulations! Excited to see what you can do in the space.

Francisco Mendes • May 23 '22

Congratulations! 👏 That's great news 💪

🚩 Atul Prajapati 🇮🇳 • May 24 '22

Huge congratulations 😁 from the bottom of my 💜💖

Go ahead, Ryan 🏁🏁🏁

Chidiebere Chukwudi • May 25 '22

Congratulations. Well deserved

Phil Wolstenholme • May 23 '22

Congrats!

kuwala • May 26 '22

Congrats! and yes OSS will booooost 🚀

Tahir Raza • May 30 '22

Congratulations!

N.H • May 30 '22

If pay is good then go for it.

Markintus-Morris • May 24 '22

For two years, I was a comp sci student & left for Engineering Tech Management minoring in Computer Science.Engineering Management is great but does anyone know if Engineering management offers more versatility than factory work? Let's say, dev ops, data analytics, product management in tech, software development, back-end / front-end, etc and more of the work from home or office setting?