Time for change

After 4 years building out a team of systems and tooling engineers, I’m taking on a new role within the company. On July 14th, I will be transitioning to the Production Engineering (PE) org helping support a team that is responsible for several key areas of keeping the server fleet healthy.

What does this mean for me personally? Promotion? New car? shoe deal? No to all of those “perks”. Its actually a lateral move level wise. There are some extra compensation aspects to the role being part of the core engineering orgs of the company. But helping support a team that has some critical infrastructure under their per view is part of the appeal for me.

Its been almost 18 years that I’ve had a twitter account. I haven’t really used it since joining Facebook over 11 years ago. Before that, it was my community. It is where I connected with other nerds, shared tips, blog posts and made friends that I would meet at conferences. It gave me opportunities and grew my career.

But its far from that anymore. And it hasn’t been that way for years.

Because I’m sure that he’ll want this taken down, let’s spread it far and wide.

Final Report of the special counsel - Volume 1

The Theme System

In case you have missed it in the past, I’ve decided to switch from the usual goals for a year to a theme. Sure there are some measurement or ideas on where I would like something to go. But this is more about making choices and having some momentum towards a certain change in my life that I’d like to make. If you would like more on setting a theme for a year or season, I suggest you check out The Theme System or watch this quick video from their page:

If you want to find out what I wanted to accomplish, feel free to go out and read the original post. Hopefully it will shed some light on the ambitions I had towards the beginning of this yearly theme.

How did it really go?

To be honest, pretty good. Did I get as much done as I would have liked, no. There were a pile of must do items that piled up. But there were some things that I got to do that were just for fun. Mainly during my reCharge I found many projects that were just extra. Not that they were glamorous, but they were what I wanted to do and my wife wanted to do. Things that made this new property feel like home vs just a new house. Its been a lot of work, but its the little things that as I look around, I’m more at peace with what all is in place.