Last week I resigned from Google.
It’s been a crazy 4 years. Helping set up the largest Mac deployment I’ve ever dealt with, getting into Puppet, learning a lot of Python, discovering how robust you can make bash, moving to the Linux teams, learning from a lot of awfully smart people, and dealing with the fallout from the Operation Aurora attacks earlier this year… it’s hard to believe it’s only been 4 years in some ways.
It felt right to put something up here about this, but don’t expect any earth shattering revelations or horror stories.
I thoroughly enjoyed working at Google. I loved working with so many talented people, and I loved getting to work on infrastructure at scale that was developed by smart people.
However, the time was right to leave. The endless suburbia of the Bay Area was starting to get to us, and I’ve been very close to the Puppet Labs folks for a long time now, so when they offered me the position of Product Manager, and a chance to finally put my money where my mouth is about Puppet… well I couldn’t turn it down.
We have a lot of work to do at Puppet Labs, but it’s exciting work, as I honestly feel that we have a great chance of helping to fundamentally improve our industry. What more could I ask for out of a job?