I owe you all an update. I'm excited to share that last week I joined @gitpod as the Head of Product Engineering. Gitpod is a company I have been following for a long time as their focus on improving engineering productivity in even the most complex, regulated environments resonates deeply for me. As AI agents become a core tenant of engineering productivity, ensuring you have a secure, zero-trust environment to run these workloads on is going to be essential for enterprise customers. Most of the AI agents available today have built their agent first and are only now realizing how hard the underlying platform problem is. Gitpod started the other way around: we’ve spent the last five years perfecting the platform. We're building something really special and I'm going to start demoing it from next week. You won't be surprised to hear that we are building the whole thing in @golang and you can expect to see me share much more about that too. If you want to be one of the first to see it, join the waitlist on ona.com. You can also follow @meet_ona here.

Jun 3, 2025 · 2:55 PM UTC

Also: I'm hiring Go engineers to help me do this! gitpod.io/careers?ashby_jid=…
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you will be missed 🩵
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Can we still be friends.
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Best of luck. Been building myself an AI agent startup using golang and it’s been a fun ride.
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Would love to hear more about it!
Congratulations Matt ✨️
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Congratulations 🎊
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Best of luck. Do you know if you guys are able to sponsor in the UK?
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We cannot sorry.
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Congratulations 🥳, this is amazing news!!!
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Congratulations Matt 👏
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They're lucky to have you! Are you moving for any of the offices?
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I live in London!
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That’s a wonderful update. Such a great place that matches your vibe. Congratulations!🥂
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Thanks a lot Sam!
Nice move, always respected what GitPod is doing. I will keep a keen eye on the new products and features that you come up with. Any chance of managed services in GitPod (DB, Messaging)? Potential to widen the feature-set to K8s easy deployment?
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We wanna stay laser-focused on developer productivity during the development process. We already support DB and messaging in your env - give it a try!
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Congratulations man 🎉
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Thanks so much!
Congratulations! Gonna be a good time.
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Thanks so much!