How I Beat The Noncompete

In the summer of 2012, I joined Systems In Motion, an Ann Arbor-based contracting company which had a couple of hundred of software engineers on staff who worked on projects for SIM clients. In 2013, Kaybus, an early-stage startup based in Mountain View, contacted SIM looking for engineers who were either experienced in Ruby on Rails or in the javascript framework called Ember. Since I checked both those boxes I was assigned to the Kaybus account.…