I resisted GitHub for as long as I could, but here we are.
For anyone curious, here are some stints/stretches from my life so far, last updated Jan 2023:
- 18 years in Southern California, starting near Disneyland and heading eastward
- 5 years in high school, after starting 9th grade at age 11 and not feeling ready to leave HS at age 14
- 2 years of community college studying math and pre-engineering
- 6 years in the US Navy as an Electronics Technician and Nuclear Reactor Operator
- 5 years (92-97) at Geoworks coding in 8086 assembly language for handheld devices
- University of Washington -- finished my BS CS degree during this time
- 6.5 years (98-05) at Amazon heading up CS tools and dev tools.
- 12.5 years at Google, doing lots of stuff, but most notably Grok (their Code Intelligence Platform)
- 2.5 years at Grab Inc, the "Uber+Paypal of Southeast Asia". Built an Ads ecosystem and other stuff.
- 25+ years working part-time on Wyvern, a video game I dreamed of in 1996
- 40+ years of playing guitar in different styles/genres
- happily married since 2004
I joined Sourcegraph in 2022 and hope to be there for a very long time.