So, I’ve been sitting on this for a while now, but finally get to make a wider announcement, now that the “i”s have been dotted and the “t”s have been crossed:
I’m leaving Reed College in a few weeks, and starting a new job at Sun Microsystems to work on Project Kenai. It’s a big change for me — I’ve been hiding out in academia for almost four years now, so switching back into the commercial world is both exciting and scary.
Kenai is a fascinating project, which I hope to talk about a lot more in the near future. I can say already that it’s one of the more ambitious JRuby on Rails projects out there, and that I’m excited to see what we can do with the full Sun hardware + open source software stack underpinning a high-volume Rails site. In addition, I’m going to get the chance to work more closely on UI and interaction design, which is an area in which I look forward to expanding and updating my skills.
Reed has been a great place to work, and I can’t say enough good things about everyone else in the IT organization here. That being said, I’m really psyched about getting to focus almost entirely on writing code and implementing features, and working in a small, distributed group within the larger Sun umbrella.
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