Why I Joined Visor as a Principal Software Engineer

My journey to becoming Principal Software Engineer at Visor is an unconventional one.

I studied game development in college and developed user interfaces for big budget video games for nearly a decade. At that point, I transitioned to becoming a software engineer in the tech sector. That journey eventually led to me joining Salesforce, a massive corporation that has been highly successful in capturing and growing market share.

Leaving such a successful and dominant company to join a small startup like Visor wasn’t an easy decision, but it wasn’t an impulsive decision either.

Michael Yaroshefsky (Visor’s CEO) and I first connected two years ago. He made a great pitch, but it just wasn’t the right time for me to join Visor. But I never forgot about the proposal. Since then I have continued building conviction in the business, the product and the team.

Having used Visor’s product, learned about its implementation, and having met the small but mighty team that built it, I’ve concluded that Visor as a company has a very good chance to outcompete large companies that struggle to innovate.

I believe that the Visor team is world class in user interface development and data synchronization. And by hiring me, the company further cements its competitive advantage in these areas.

I believe that Visor is built on a solid engineering foundation and has established a foothold in an existing market.

I believe that by leaning on its strengths, Visor can win against entrenched companies who exhibit signs of the ABCs of business decay, which are arrogance, bureaucracy and complacency (― Warren Buffett, The Essays of Warren Buffett : Lessons for Corporate America).

I believe that by joining a world class team and competing with behemoths in tech, I will learn more about software engineering, business, management, scaling, and many other things that go into building a competitive business.

I believe that there is a high probability that Visor becomes the preferred user interface for many applications. A spreadsheet interface is ideal to solve many problems, such as data retrieval, updates, aggregation, and synchronization, database management, access control, feature flags, and many other use cases that we’ll discover by dogfooding our own tech and talking with our users.

I plan to leverage my skills and experience to help Michael and the world class team he built at Visor out-build, out-innovate, and out-compete existing entrenched players in the tech sector. My goal is to build the preferred user interface to solve many problems, for many people. I’m really excited to build both a product and a company that delights and impresses its users.

I’m embarking on the greatest challenge of my life, and I am excited and a little bit scared too to be honest. Given a choice I will always pick the option that results in maximum learning. I believe that’s what life is all about.

“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.”, ― Norman Vincent Peale

Samuel Batista

Samuel Batista

A front-end specialist with a long career building user interfaces for video games and web applications, with experience writing & debugging server applications; a versatile full stack engineer who joined Visor at just the right time.