I Am, Once Again, Still Alive, And Just Had A Very Busy 2023
And now it’s time for my (apparently) yearly blog post! What a year!
I Got Married!!!
I said “I do” to my wonderful wife on October 21 in Portland, OR! It was, as expected, the best day of my life, so filled with love, care, and joy; and it was also the end result of a year-long quasi-Agile effort to bring it all together. We are still exhausted from planning and executing it–but hey, this means I can put “project manager” on my resume, right? As one might have noticed I changed my name when I got married, thus the shiny new URL. Unfortunately I have not yet bothered to run sed against this website’s codebase, since slightly more important things like bank accounts and identity documents have taken priority, so there’s going to be some little remnants of my maiden name all over. Time to write a runbook?
I Do Not Work At Box
2023 was a rough year in tech in terms of layoffs and unfortunately my own luck ran out. A good chunk of my team got cut and I was unfortunately among those affected. Once again goes to show that layoffs are terribly arbitrary. Box did take quite good care of me and I was very lucky to be mainly stress free by the time my wedding day rolled around, mainly because…
I Now Work At ConductorOne
I ended up being officially unemployed without an offer for less than three weeks, which was truly miraculous given the market. Massive props to all my now-coworkers who got the offer ball rolling quickly. I’ve joined ConductorOne as the first SRE hire and going back to startup-land has been a very fun change. I’m enjoying the change in scenery and finally coming to terms with the fact that I am a senior engineer.
Go Is (Probably) My Favorite Programming Language Now
And I wrote a lot of it over the past year. Can neither confirm or deny if Stockholm Syndrome has anything to do with my favoritism. One day, I will elaborate (and also talk about my Smarandache-Wellin number library for Python, written in Rust)… but it’s late and I wrote this all on my phone, so until next year!