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- Andre Maxwell got a remote job as a solutions architect at Okta in March 2022.
- He picked up his laptop in Dallas and continued life as a digital nomad traveling to 16 countries.
- Maxwell was promoted to senior management and said performance was the most important factor.
This as-told-to essay is based on a transcribed conversation with Andre Maxwell, a digital nomad who works at cloud security company Okta. The following has been edited for length and clarity.
I was in Tulum, Mexico, when I joined Okta in March 2022 as a solutions architect. I had already been a digital nomad for almost a year, working as a cybersecurity engineer at a smaller tech company.