Kelsey Hightower
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And one of my buddies gave me the name is from some video game.
Once it got approved, Mr. Rossetti would own the ticket and we would just extract the custom fields and we would just call the right puppet manifest and we would take the output and update the ticket.
And so PMs, developers, they just got what they want damn near instantaneously.
So we built all the systems.
They didn't know nights and weekends I'm contributing to puppet because, you know, it wasn't allowed at work at the time.
This is 2007, 2008.
So they were just like, hey, you got to do that on your own time.
So I would just do it nights and weekends.
So James shows up.
And I remember we all get in the elevator.
We're going to the third floor.
My manager's introducing James to me, to our team.
Like, hey, this is this person.
This is this person.
This is Kelsey.
And James turns to me.
He's like, Kelsey Hightower?
Oh, we know you.
We love your contributions.
And my manager's just like,