Most likely it got them a much higher paying job than they would have otherwise gotten. Walking in and saying you single handedly run a site with billions of requests per day and petabytes of traffic will get you noticed.
Being able to get in front of a hiring manager who is offering a high paying job and convincing them to hire you is the only thing. And having a very popular website with a ton of traffic is more likely to get you in front of a hiring manager with a good job than actually being good.
Rackspace:
- Principal Architect, OpenStack - Cloud Architect, Cloud Servers
- Chief Security Architect, Director
I'd love to set one up like that.
Since I have mostly Windows Experience, it would probably need to be a .chm file :)
That cert is no joke.
RHCA(dminstrator) is a great cert to get (not super difficult but not super easy, but like all RH certs you need to actually know the material).
RHCE is awesome to have, and a good bit harder than RHCAdministrator. But when I grow up I want RHCArchitect...
I hate certs, but if you want in on certain projects, it doesn't hurt to have the desired certs, especially if you can get your employer to foot the bill.
Anyways, knowing him personally, I can attest he's a really good dev and wholesome person. Sad to see this site get bogged down with malicious activity, because like downforeveryoneorjustme, I kind of have it committed to muscle memory. Hope CloudFlare can keep it going strong!