This post was written by BlackieOps President and Founder, Alex Blackie, who is leading the Worktree product development.
Hi, I’m Alex and I’m a software developer. I’ve lived and worked all over Canada, and throughout my career one common thread joined it all together: all our data is in the US. Servers, databases, code, CI – you name it, it’s probably in North Virginia.
Now, of course, there are a lot of historical reasons for this, but it always bothered me. It just felt… wrong. I’m Canadian, my employers were Canadian; why should all our intellectual property be stored in a foreign country?