I had no intention of making or joining a new startup (after a successful exit that was a good financial decision but turned out to be terrible professional one), when a few former co-founders of SequenceIQ and friends that I’d been working with at Fathom Technology/Epam Systems approached me after I arrived home from an extended surfing trip. A handful of them had moved on to a project for a banking giant that invovled microservice-based Java applications scheduled with Nomad.