Putting the "Dev" Back in DevHawk
I’ve done a lot of different jobs in my 15+ years at Microsoft. All of them have been development related in one way or another. Development consulting, developer evangelism, architecture evangelism, IT architect, etc. For the past six years, I’ve been a program manager for a developer related technology – first for IronPython and later for Windows Runtime.
It’s been a good run, but I’m taking the opportunity to move from a "development related" job to just being a pure developer.
I can’t talk much the new gig, other than to say I am working with an all-star cast of braniacs including the likes of Joe Duffy, Stephen Toub, Adam Nathan and Krzysztof Cwalina. Just the knowledge osmosis opportunity alone is enough to make my head spin. Luckily, after four years on the Windows Runtime team, I’m already quite used to working around a bunch of braniacs – though arguably a less well known in the community bunch once you get beyond than the unestimable Larry Osterman.
As for this blog, I hope to be blogging more in the future. No promises, but certainly I can’t blog much less than I have for the past several years (zero posts for all of 2013 is kind of depressing). In particular, I’ve been away from production development for many, many, many years so I figure there is lots of interesting topics to focus on as I make this transition. In particular, I don’t have a classic "algorithms and data structures" computer science background. Based on the interview questions I got – all related to linked lists and binary search trees – I’m guessing this is an area where I really need to sharpen the saw.
Hope you all have liked the various technology I’ve worked on so far. Here’s hoping you like what comes next even more.