Queen One is a commerce and marketing technology company focused on blending creativity, tech, and storytelling to better connect brands with consumers. They are building expansive platforms designed to supplant today’s aging e-commerce websites and communication channels, transforming online shopping and product discovery.
I joined Queen One when they acquired Rejoiner, for whom I’d been working as a backend Python engineer.
They have put together a team of stellar engineers and designers. It’s been a lot of fun being a part of the team that is building out the sort of scalable platform that has been persistent stretch-goal on the long-term roadmap for the teams I’ve previously been a part of.
Since early 2025, when I joined the company, I’ve helped move unmigratably large databases from one cloud provider to another, modernized crusty legacy systems, picked up Go and Terraform, and now I’m authoring skills for a small army of AI agents.
Rejoiner offered a unified platform for managed email, SMS, and postcard campaigns to boost e-commerce retention and revenue. They combinined intelligent tools with expert, hands-on support.
When I joined the team, Rejoiner was a small marketing technology company with a small, but capable team whose customer base was, as they say, three feet wide and a mile deep. They had fun problems and a lofty set of goals, and they were super-easy to get along with.
My role there varied a lot, but I was primarily working to keep the system stable, performant, and operating within the constraints of the company’s budget.
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