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by Atotalnoob 752 days ago
Why is the author listing himself as datastax cto?

He isn’t according the Wikipedia, my friend who works there, and their company website. https://www.datastax.com/our-people

That’s kind of weird
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jbellis 752 days ago
I guess I'm kind of a CTO emeritus now -- I mostly write code, by choice. https://github.com/jbellis
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lemarchr 752 days ago
See https://www.datastax.com/our-people/jonathan-ellis

Wikipedia lists them as a founder. Perhaps their author bio is outdated, or Wikipedia is. Not sure about your friend.

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Atotalnoob 752 days ago
They were definitely a founder, but they are not the current cto
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metadat 752 days ago
What are you talking about? The datastax site lists it:

> SANTA CLARA, Calif. – September 28, 2020 – DataStax today announced that DataStax Co-Founder and CTO Jonathan Ellis will deliver a keynote address at ApacheCon @Home 2020

https://www.datastax.com/press-release/datastax-co-founder-a....

As an aside, I'm an ApacheCon presenter but there was no press release about the hot excitement of my involvement. Maybe next time :)

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Atotalnoob 752 days ago
That’s from 2024. They aren’t the cto of datastax currently
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metadat 752 days ago
Maybe it's the highest rank they achieved and still trying to capitalize on it. So what? Should they now say "Unemployed"?

There has to be more interesting things to discuss than this.

P.s. I think you meant 2020.

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