Employee Profiles
Justin K.
Title: Level 2 Technical Support
Started at DreamHost: 2006
What do you do at DreamHost?
Tech support, some server maintenance, and much MySQL optimization and maintenance. I also try to keep the tech support people from annoying every single person outside our office with their loud music and bass.
What's your favorite part about working here?
It is a great atmosphere and lots of geeky people with which to talk geeky talk.
What's the craziest thing you've ever seen while working at DreamHost?
That would have to be the massive nerf gun war in the office, no one was safe, and we found missing darts behind computers, desks, everywhere for months. Second place would be the day I found one customer running a 5 billion row query on shared hosting MySQL. Yeah...might want to optimize that a tad.
What's the craziest thing you've ever seen in your LIFE?
I moved from Southern California to Siegen, Germany at 20 years old to live on my own for a few years. I went there to get learn programming further, and see some of Europe. It was lots of fun and since everything was unknown and new to me, there was much craziness.
What is your favorite...
Color: Blue
Food: Spaghetti
Drink: Scotch
Wood: Cherry
Actor: Don't really have one
Smell: French fries cooking
Video Game: Lands of Lore, Starcraft, Warcraft II/III, etc
Movies: Lola rennt, Monty Python, Mel Brooks films, Amelie, lots of randomness
TV Shows: Futurama, lots of shows on Discovery, Cowboy Bebop
Bands: Don't have any favorites, and few genres I won't listen to. I normally listen to web radio and flip around a lot.
Do you have a website or blog?
Sure do, but like most personal blogs it is a boring, infrequently updated mess: http://knierim.org/
Any parting words?
"Some people never go crazy; what truly horrible lives they must live." - Charles Bukowski