I have been working remotely (as a senior dev, software architect, now a CTO) for more than a decade now. I worked for a racing-to-IPO software dev company in

I have been working remotely (as a senior dev, software architect, now a CTO) for more than a decade now. I worked for a racing-to-IPO software dev company in upstate NY that collapsed in 2002, and the connections from that spun out into subcontracting, initially for various local clients (and thus already mostly remote, sometimes on-site). Then I moved to Michigan, but kept doing the same work. Then I moved the France; ditto (included one trip to launch a project on-site, living in a hotel for 10 days... ugh). It was tricky, working from so far away (esp. when working with a team of developers who were on-site), so I worked solo for a few years (my wife published a well-reviewed first novel, which helped a lot); we had a kid in 2009. In late 2010 I found a dev job with a Cambridge, UK-based startup, here on HN. Now I'm the CTO. All of the developers here are remote. My in-laws are in Malaysia, so I'm working (and parenting; we have two daughters now) in Kuala Lumpur all this month. I like this setup; it's sometimes really hard (mixing in parenting is the hard part, really). More details/advice available if there are questions, when I have time tonight.