Category Archives: Team
My First Week At SendGrid
It’s been an exciting whirlwind so far to join the developer relations team at SendGrid! In my first week I attended a conference, traveled to the SendGrid offices in Anaheim, met customers and my new co-workers plus enjoyed one of the most delicious hamburgers I’ve ever had! Related PostsSendGrid Delivered hits NYC September 12 Customer Success Story: Award Winning Digital Agency, Cyber-Duck Benefits from Cloud Email Capabilities Become an Inbox Insider with SendGrid Delivered Vote For SendGrid In The 2013 SXSW Panel Picker eCommerce Hack Day Brings New Challenge To Developers
READ MORE »Building a Community for Building Things
Hi everyone, I’m Brandon West. I’ve just started working as a Developer Relations Engineer for SendGrid, and I’m here to help Tim Falls make our developer community the best it can be. That means I’ll be hanging out everywhere developers gather – on and offline. I’ll be attending events like hack days, Startup Weekends, conferences – anywhere people are building (or talking about building) cool things! You can consider me a general resource to web developers, ready to help in any way possible. Related PostsKicking Off a New Year Portland devs and OSCON-goers, come hack with us!
READ MORE »SendGrid Sponsors NCWIT’s Entrepreneurial Alliance
I’m in New York this week for the NCWIT’s annual summit. Established in 2004, the National Center for Women & Information Technology is a coalition of over 250 prominent corporations, academic institutions, government agencies, and non-profits working to increase the participation of girls and women in computing and IT. I’m proud to report that SendGrid is now a partner in this coalition as a sponsor of NCWIT’s Entrepreneurial Alliance, and I’m delighted for the opportunity to represent our company at the 2011 summit. You have likely been involved in discussions around the general topic of women in IT in recent memory,…
READ MORE »Jim Franklin, Formerly of Oracle, Joins SendGrid as CEO
Isaac Saldana, co-founder and founding CEO, Will Drive Product Innovation “How the Best Get Better” by Jim Franklin Because we have over 10 years of thought-leadership, 20,000+ customers and 7+ billion emails reliably delivered, SendGrid is the clear leader in email deliverability. My role on this team is to focus on managing growth and scaling the business. Isaac will focus on making the SendGrid product experience even better. While we are proud of our accomplishments, we look forward to providing an even better customer experience. Here is what you can expect from us: Features: As thought leaders, we will innovate…
READ MORE »Why Email is Not Dead [+video]
With the ubiquity of social networks and their native messaging platforms, the worldwide adoption of SMS, and the exponential growth of Twitter, it is no surprise that some people feel inclined to conjecture the impending obsolescence of email as a communications tool. However, upon careful examination of our daily interactions through devices and applications, an even more compelling case can be made for the continued and expanding use of email as our primary means of personal and professional “written” communication. At SendGrid, we feel pretty strongly about this topic and couldn’t be more optimistic about the future of email. Related PostsSendgrid at…
READ MORE »News, Events & Release Notes: December 17, 2010
In this week’s edition of the SendGrid blog, we’ll provide a mixture of technical release notes and general updates on what we’ve been up to and where you might see us next – both on- and off- line. Related PostsHackers Redefine Work at Box Hackathon We’re Geeks…and We Love Planes. Hacking the Midwest 5 Key Practices to Avoid the Spam Folder SendGrid now more available than ever to Rackspace users
READ MORE »Conferences, Trade Shows, Hackdays, Oh My!
At SendGrid, we’ve been busy hitting the proverbial pavement and spreading the word about who we are and how we help companies grow and succeed. We thought it was worth taking a moment to reflect on the cool events we’ve been a part of in the past month or so, as well as those that are approaching in the coming months. And don’t worry – we’re keeping some developers in the office to continue improving the product and some support staff on hand to answer your questions. Related PostsLone Star Ruby Hackathon Recap API Hackday Coming To London Startup Weekend…
READ MORE »
Follow SendGrid
