In an excellent article discussing some software engineers’ transitions from working on Wall Street to working on startups, our very own Parse.ly CTO, Andrew Montalenti, is profiled.

You can imagine the surprise when we discovered the article as the top choice in our Parse.ly team account today (see above!).  How very meta.

A relevant quote:

[…] soon the work grew redundant, Mr. Montalenti said, and the problems he was asked to solve as part of his day-to-day responsibilities started to seem technically uninteresting. Like many other creatively inclined, intellectually ambitious programmers who took high-paying jobs on Wall Street after college, Mr. Montalenti found himself disillusioned and restless.

Then, in March of last year, he did something very few people in his predicament have the guts to do: He quit his job and founded a company of his own with one of his best friends.

“I’d just like to be able to point to at least one thing after 15 years of working as a software engineer and say, ‘I built that thing,’” said Mr. Montalenti, who, at 26, is now happily running Parse.ly, a Web-based recommendation service.

Click here to read more from Observer.com.

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