Comment by maxdemarzi

I started using Neo4j 8 years ago after a long time as a relational database developer. I needed it for a project building a LinkedIn clone with skills (at the time LinkedIn didn't have skills). I was going to need a massive join table of user-skill-user and decided it was best in a graph. I built a ruby gem "neography" as a Neo4j driver and became an open source contributor. Later Neo4j contracted me to build a rules engine in a week for one of their clients. That got me a job as a Sales Engineer at Neo4j. 100+ blog posts, 200+ github repos later, lots of travel, and many wins, I still love the job, and still love the database.