Adrian Cockcroft - now @adrianco@mastodon.social on Twitter: "I first came to the US with Sun Microsystems on an L1 visa in 1993, got my green card in 2004, then worked in Silicon Valley for @ebaytech, @NetflixOSS, @BatteryVentures and @AWSopen" / Twitter

Adrian Cockcroft - now @adrianco@mastodon.social

I first came to the US with Sun Microsystems on an L1 visa in 1993, got my green card in 2004, then worked in Silicon Valley for

@ebaytech

@NetflixOSS

and

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I came to the US on a H-1B visa. At the time there was no lottery or line, and it was faster than getting an L1! I helped build Amazon CloudFront, Amazon Route 53, AWS Shield, ELB, NLB, and NAT Gateway in that time. I'd like to think a net positive for the US too! twitter.com/jeremysliew/st…

3:40 PM · Jun 23, 2020

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Shame to see the drawbridge pulled up

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I came to the US in 1987 on an H4 visa, got my green card in 1991 in Houston, my degree (and first full time job) in 1992, and my citizenship in 2000 in Seattle. I would have never been able to work, marry, have kids, or pay taxes in the US without our immigration process.

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