Hey all, I'm Jess. A Senior DevOps Engineer at Epistemix, an agent based modeling startup. I'm using garden to bridge the gaps between infrastructure and application development with an internal development platform kinda feel. Garden has really hit all my check boxes so far, and I've just about finished onboarding my first project with plans to integrate the rest of our ecosystem over the next few months. We're a smaller team, and other solutions felt too complicated or overreaching for our use cases. Garden has been easy to learn, with great documentation and examples. It feels like there's plenty of room for us to grow with Garden from our side. Fun story: I actually discovered and evaluated Garden during an embedded interview process where I had to create infrastructure and deploy their application stack, as well as develop a monitoring stack, and ended up giving a 10 minute demo which in retrospect felt dedicated to Garden, and ended up covering very little about their own stack in the demo. I got too excited by Garden and lost focus. I didn't get the job, but I did find the perfect tool for my own development style and my current team's needs.

We're so pleased to have you with us 🏡. Your story reminds me of how I discovered Garden at another company previous also as a Senior DevOps Engineer just like you 😄. I got so dreadfully excited about it once I realized how much stress and time it could save our developers, well I went to work for its makers. We have a few enterprisey companies using Config Templates to vend IDPs for their devs but not so many on the startup side: really excited to see where you take it! Please keep us updated and don't hesitate to ask if there's anything you need from our side. 🧑‍🌾

Hi Jess! Just wanted to also welcome you to our community and thank you for the kind words Looking forward to hearing more from your journey. And we're here to help if there's anything 🙂