Thank You Tableau
By Hugo Belin
Move to the Web Team
Thank You Tableau
Almost 6 years have passed since I joined Tableau back in 2016. What an adventure! Amazing company, amazing coworkers, great place for learning. I had the responsibility of improving parts of the product (go Web Authoring!) as well as its test infrastructure. I worked in multiple Tableau conferences (Austin, TX 2016. Las Vegas, NV 2017. Las Vegas, NV 2019) and had a lot of fun, both during the event and after.
Move to the Web
Learned valuable lessons and new technologies outside of the Microsoft stack (new to me). Learned about Selenium and BrowserStack used in Tableau browser tests which opened a world of ideas for me. Prior to this I’ve never done any browser testing. Learned and contributed to TabJolt , a stress engine used to benchmark Tableau deployments. Learned about React and Jasmine and their use in our web authoring products ( Tableau Online and Tableau Public ). More importantly, I learned about Tableau’s impact on the careers of people, business, and the environment. Data is important. Data is power. With power comes responsibility as well. Seeing Tableau put to use in good causes such as tracking disease spread, poverty, environmental impact and more gave it an additional meaning to my day-to-day work. Working in a place that helps the world in this way is hard to match.
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Had the pleasure to work with a team of rock stars, everyone excelled in one of more field. I was not only able to learn from those rock stars but also bond as a team. Multiple personalities, multiple skills and everyone was able to work as a great team and deliver. It was just simply a very rare balance, something I appreciate deeply. The cherry on top was a management chain open to new ideas, to try and fail, to deliver and recognize, to explore new paths, technologies and processes. While all these factors were great I recognize that everyone is on their own path and their own career and that this intersection in time while great, it will change eventually as each of us progress in our careers, there’s no way around it. Still I feel grateful for the time I’ve spent in this team (Move to the Web, later renamed to Stay on the Web) and this company.
You got me at “Data”. Realizing the importance of good data systems has taken me on to my next career adventure and sadly my departure from this team and this company. I will hold great memories from my time here and for sure will keep in touch with the great people that crossed at some point on my team or the company. Empowering people and organizations to be more efficient and achieve more with their data was and will still be a focus on my career .
Thank you Tableau, thank you Move to the Web team, and thank you Stay on the Web team!
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