My job normally requires me to write in funny sounding languages like C# (pronounced “see-sharp”), and SQL (like the word “sequel”). I use strange acronyms like ASP.Net (ay-es-pee dot net), and slay “bugs” with electronic weapons. After a feverish two years in the Prosper engineering department, I feel out of practice writing in my native English!

Taking a moment to breathe from what has been a truly wild ride thus far, let me share a personal insight: that is that people I work with at Prosper are easily the smartest and hardest working people I have ever worked with. We simply get things done. Fast. Very fast. And I’m not one easily daunted by hard work: having served in the Israeli Air Force, instructed in a foreign language, attended medical school, and having raised three children as a single dad for several years, Prosper is an experience that rivals the demands of all of them.

Decisions have been carefully weighed. So much thought has gone into building this marketplace! Hardly a step has been taken without the benefit of extreme consideration. From the day I started, working on a make shift desk made out of a folding table (many employee’s desks are still folding tables by the way!) till today, Prosper has been about extreme thinking matched with unrelenting quality execution. We are not perfect, and of course have made our share of mistakes, but I am oh-so-proud to be a part of where this is going.

Adam Edell is a Senior Software Engineer with Prosper.com