Good Morning, Sugar Developers!
My name is Michael Shaheen and I am SugarCRM’s new Developer Advocate. I’ll be working with Matt Marum to maintain relationships between our developer community and the teams that work with the Sugar product group.
Let’s talk a bit about my background. I have been a developer since writing
10 print “Michael Rocks”
20 goto 10to fill up the screen at the mall Radio Shack in the early 80s. Since then, I have worked for multiple companies as a manager of software development teams. I may have been managing, but I can never stop coding. I love to get into projects and solve problems. Lately that has been mostly front-end work (Javascript, React, SASS, task runners, etc), but I’m not a stranger to back-end. I spent many years coding in .NET, Java and PHP.
At home, I have a beautiful wife and 2 lovely teenage daughters. Oh and cats. We have 2 indoor and a few outdoor cats that we take care of. I also tell a lot of dad jokes (but that started before the kids).
Over the past 3 weeks, I have been learning all there is to know about SugarCRM as an organization and Sugar as a platform. I’m looking forward to talking to each of you through the Developer Community and, hopefully, in person as much as possible. From the conversations I’ve had with SugarCRM engineers, I know that they all want to put out the best quality product possible. The Developer Community is one of our top ways of gathering feedback. I aim to ensure your feedback is heard and acted upon. Keep your eyes peeled for a survey!
I am very excited to be in this new role and I can’t wait to meet you all through the Developer Community as well as at events as they arise. In the meantime, say hello in the comments or leave me a comment with your best dad joke. I’ll get you started:
Remember, 6 out of 7 dwarfs aren’t happy.
