About One Shore
One Shore Inc is a US corporation with offices in Seattle, Washington and in Cuenca, Ecuador.
We provide software QA consulting, remote and on-site staffing (where available), and custom solutions. We specialize in deploying and managing open source applications in either our secure hosted environment, or within your network.
See our services page or contact us for more information.
About Aaron Evans
My name is Aaron Evans. I am the founder of One Shore Inc.
I live in ^recently returned from Cuenca, Ecuador with my beautiful bride Kelsey. In 2004 she lived here for 9 months while volunteering with an orphanage support program called OSSO. After being married for 3 months, we decided to move down here together. While she is out saving the world and playing with orphans, I'm working on my business, One Shore, to provide software QA consulting, web development, and hosted solutions.
I have worked in IT for 10 years, mostly in QA related p. My first experience with computers was at 7 years old, when Santa Claus brought my family a TRS-80 for Christmas. Text based adventure games (and a Pac-Man clone "Packet Man") that loaded from cassette tape were my passion. After mastering Packet Man, I taught myself BASIC and attempted to write my own arcade and adventure games. In high school, I taught myself the rudiments of C during typing class.
I gave up computers and worked construction for a few years, until I started doing office work, then basic system administration, then web design for an ISP started by my father & brother. I heard a presentation on Linux at college in 1998, and was intrigued, but unaware that I had been been using it for over a year already. I took a Unix class, and did my homework from the terminal at the ISP, hoping to avoid the dreaded "Aiyeee! Kernel Panic" that could diconnect hundreds of dial up users.
I moved to Seattle in 2000 to take a job at Microsoft, having bluffed my way through interviews and guessing brain teasers correctly. My passion was Linux, and I spent all my spare time catching up. The plan was to work a year and then return to Oregon to finish remodeling a house I'd bought. I didn’t like the weather there or living in the city. Five years later, I was still in Seattle, having worked at several companies, big and small, and steadily making a career out of QA, all the while exploring open source applications, and occasionally contributing bug reports or patches.
I was on vacation in Fiji when I got the call that I was being "affected" by a major round of layoffs. It wasn't a surprise, but it did put a damper on my trip, since I had to return to work for 1 month if I wanted my (relatively generous) severance package. I had every intention of returning to Fiji after that month, but found the market for QA professions was oto good to walk away from. A year and a half later, I did return to Fiji, with plans to stay and start a "Survival Tour" company, where I'd work with my Fijian friends to bring tourists to their island to live on the beach and learn to climb coconut trees, spear fish, and start a fire without matches.
So I packed up my stuff to put in storage at my folks, who were slowly building their house in the Montana wilderness. Every six months or so, I'd go back to help -- pour concrete, hang sheetrock, finish a room, etc. After a month of work, I'd get a new contract job, and head back to Seattle. Only this time, I was going to Fiji. I'd had enough of the city, the rain, the cubicle walls, and computers.
Except that I'd fallen in love. Literally the night before leaving. I was still going to Fiji, but I'd promised to return in 3 months. It turns out I didn't have enough time or money to make the tourism business work, and I decided that what I needed was a boat, which meant lots more money.
I wandered down to the Royal Suva Yacht Club one day, a remnant of it's former glory, perched between the shipyard and the dump. It was now mostly a watering hole for yachties getting supplies or repairs in town, or stopping between the more exotic ports in Fiji, Savusavu or the Yasawas. There I saw a hand written note on the bulletin board, looking for crew to sail to Australia.
Long story short, I sailed around Fiji for a couple weeks, then to Australia, and flew back to spend my last week in Fiji saying goodbye to friends with Lovo (a feast like a Luau.) I returned to Seattle and eventually married Kelsey.
My heart is in the mountains in Montana and on the sea in the South Pacific. I'm still doing QA, but now consult from our home in Ecuador. I have a great view of the cathedral and plaza. I'm still looking for a sailboat, but with the added expense of a boradband satellite connection so I can work truly "offshore."