Hey, Andrei (the UBC grad) and founder of Human API here.
We still have a great group of people in Vancouver (and that office will be open indefinitely), however we've decided not to expand the team there right now. The biggest driver in this decision was communication overhead across the two offices -- it's certainly not an insurmountable task, however we can't ignore the benefits of having most people under the same roof.
I personally love Vancouver and some of our best team members are located there, so if we decide to expand across two offices again, we'll definitely start there.
Air Canada Express recently started 2x daily YVR-SJC; direct connections between Vancouver and the Valley may help with communications with the Redwood City office.
Are you willing to publicly divulge an ETA on when you'll come back to Vancouver? Please come back. I really love Human API's vision, and I don't want Vancouver's biggest tech players to be companies like:
-SAP (which I wish could be relegated to the ashheap of history in all its ABAP glory)
-TELUS (a telco monopoly)
-EA Canada (a slave-driving AAA game studio)
-Tableau (which will be doomed when Microsoft PowerBI gets in gear and SharePoint integration improves)
We still have a great group of people in Vancouver (and that office will be open indefinitely), however we've decided not to expand the team there right now. The biggest driver in this decision was communication overhead across the two offices -- it's certainly not an insurmountable task, however we can't ignore the benefits of having most people under the same roof.
I personally love Vancouver and some of our best team members are located there, so if we decide to expand across two offices again, we'll definitely start there.