Derek Allard leaves EllisLab
In an announcement on his blog yesterday, Technology Architect Derek Allard wrote that he has left his position at EllisLab and is “now seeking new opportunities and the next challenge.”
Derek worked for EllisLab for the last three years and according to his blog post he was “the only developer working full time to bring ExpressionEngine2 to market.” As we all know, Derek was also responsible for EllisLab’s new mini-CMS MojoMotor. We hope MojoMotor continues development in his absence.
EE Insider wishes Derek the best in his new adventures beyond ExpressionEngine and MojoMotor and we thank him for his contributions that make everything we do at this site possible. Bon Voyage!
Read Derek’s entire blog post: New Challenges
Posted on Sep 14, 2010 by Ryan Irelan
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Mrs. Flinger — 16:45 on 09.14.2010
I don’t think we’ve seen the last of Allard.
He’s a good friend, a fabulous developer and the DeVito to my Arnold.
Rick Ellis — 23:38 on 09.14.2010
“the only developer working full time to bring ExpressionEngine2 to market.”
That’s an odd statement on his part. There was a period in mid 2008, after Paul Burdick left, where Allard and Derek Jones were doing most of the development. By the end of that year we had added Robin, and a few months later, Pascal and Greg. By the time EE2 was released our dev team had 5 full-time people on it. I don’t think Derek meant it in the way it reads. He probably means that he was one of the only full-time employees that was involved in the project through the entire development. But even that’s not quite accurate, as Paul Burdick, Derek Jones and I we’re already working on 2.0, and had already created the roadmap for it, before Allard joined the team.
Brendon Carr — 05:42 on 09.15.2010
It was really perplexing to read that statement from Derek yesterday, given the time it took EE2 to get shaped up enough to release, even as a beta.
Ryan Irelan — 08:55 on 09.15.2010
Thanks for clarifying, Derek!
Derek Allard — 08:55 on 09.15.2010
Yeah, just to clarify, that was entirely out of context. Rick has it. I didn’t mean to imply I was the only person working on it for any length of time, it should have read “heck, there was even a bit of time when I was the only full time developer”. That’s not to say I was going it alone, and certainly not to say that EllisLab wasn’t entirely responsible in their allocation of energy and resources. I was reminiscing in my head is all.