Our employees are SSH gurus and have mad skillz with SSH tunnels and crazy forward and reverse port forwarding and encrypted tunnel setups.Our colo provider gave us a class-C netblock with 254 usable IP addresses, making it easy to just stick boxes and services on the public internet.I’ll admit that we were slow to jump on the VPN bandwagon, primarily the following reasons: Consider this post the first in a series of articles on products, vendors, services and technology that we use to enable ourselves.
#Tunnelblick deployed version professional
I’ve spent 10+ years in the trenches building this small virtual company and figured it might be useful to blog about some of the behind the scenes things that make our business and professional lives easier. I’m also the internal Infrastructure Guy’ responsible for company macbooks, iphones, verizon mifi’s and all of the public, private and cloud infrastructure we use to run our business and development environments. My “internal” responsibilities fall into two categories – I’m the goto guy for HR stuff like benefits, insurance and administering the company 401K retirement plan.
#Tunnelblick deployed version software
Of the 10 current employees at the time of this post, 9 of us are client-facing and directly billable consultants and/or software developers. The internal load-balancing that we do helps keep our staff ratio amazingly productive – we have no middle management and almost no “overhead” positions. The other thing I like about this company is how we all share the burden of doing all the daily behind the scenes stuff required to keep the company alive and making payroll. Over the years as our little group has grown we’ve gotten the chance to kick the tires and use “for real” a number of different products and technologies that help us stay agile, distributed and nimble. This means that all of the “stuff” required to support a real company must also be largely virtual and distributed. One of the many reasons I love working for the BioTeam is that we are pretty much a 100% virtual and entirely distributed company – our biggest fixed physical asset at this point are the racks of colocation space that we rent within an a Boston-area datacenter (and even that is shrinking as we rely more heavily on Citrix XenServer virtualization and the Amazon cloud).Īll BioTeam employees work from home (or coffeeshops, airport lounges or hotels) when not traveling on business or working onsite with clients.
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