Adrian Goins wrote his first piece of software in 1983 at the age of 9.  It didn't do much, but armed with a Commodore 64 and a cassette recorder, he started devouring computers, finding them to be the first thing about the world that made sense.  Adrian continued to explore the inter-network communication systems, working with friends on BBSes and spending hours engrossed in learning whatever he could find about computers, technology, and how electronic devices interacted with one another.

He made his first foray onto the Internet in 1995.  While exploring Usenet he found a post about a new operating system called Linux and how the poster was going to install it on his computer and be the coolest kid on the block.  A few days later Adrian was the coolest kid on his block, but no one knew.  He began to voraciously research everything related to Unix, Linux, and what made the Internet what it was.  He already knew BASIC and some C, and so he started on his quest to learn everything there was to know about everything.  By July of 1996 he was the system administrator for 100% Software Solutions, a development shop in Denver that built X widgets for Goldman Sachs.  By December of 1996 he had a 56k dedicated frame relay connection, and a roommate who owned Dimensional Communications, an ISP in Denver, Colorado.

Adrian started his development training by choosing businesses from the phone book and building fake websites for them at night, learning from others and practicing his development skills.  He built a restricted backend for Hallmark Entertainment Networks affiliates and gave a presentation to a Cable Programmer's Conference on "HTML 101" to tell them about how the future was going to be arranged. By the end of 1997 he was the lead Java Developer on an MCI project for handling switching of long distance telephone service.  He wrote a custom client/server stack to handle communication between Local Care operators across the country and the central server where the configuration changes were made.  By mid-1998 he was the Director of Network Operations for Dimensional Communications, the ISP run by his former roommate from two years earlier.  By 1999 he was fluent in the management of Unix, Linux, and Windows systems and was able to write software in Perl, PHP, HTML, Java, Visual Basic, Javascript, VBScript, Delphi, C, and basic shell scripting languages.  He decided to make a huge leap and moved to New York.

Adrian took the newly-created position of Website Server Manager for MaMaMedia, a children's education company built upon the constructivism educational theory.  Adrian helped MaMaMedia grow from a single cabinet of hardware to racks of hardware in multiple datacenters.  From there he moved to Urbanfetch.com, a realtime delivery service for the New York area that was hugely popular in 1999 and 2000.  As the Director of Network Operations Adrian oversaw network and security services for the US and UK and managed the transatlantic connectivity between the two locations.  This continued until the end of the dotcom era, when Adrian decided to make another leap and went out on his own.

Adrian saw that system administrators weren't needed 100% of the time that the company employed them.  He realized that a service which offered the support that the environment needed only in the quantity required would be great for the clients (who would pay less) and the administrators (who would have many clients and be busy and challenged).  Armed with this idea and a few thousand dollars of investment, he sold the idea to his first customer and in November of 2000 began the company that exists today.

Adrian is still voracious and wants to learn everything about everything.  He spends most of his free time trying to automate the universe around him.  In addition to this pursuit, he relaxes by training Krav Maga or going on grueling rides on his mountain bike.  He spends his time between New York and Krakow and lives with his wife, three cats, and an occasional batch of triops.