diff --git a/_posts/2023-03-01-five-year-moziversary.md b/_posts/2023-03-01-five-year-moziversary.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..35d653b --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2023-03-01-five-year-moziversary.md @@ -0,0 +1,66 @@ +--- +permalink: "/{{ year }}/{{ month }}/{{ day }}/five-year-moziversary" +title: "Five-year Moziversary" +published_date: "2023-03-01 08:00:00 +0200" +layout: post.liquid +data: + route: blog + tags: + - mozilla +excerpt: | + Celebrating five years in my job as a Telemetry Engineer at Mozilla. +--- + +I can't believe it's already my fifth Moziversary. +It's been 5 years now since I [joined Mozilla as a Telemetry engineer][joinedmoz], +I blogged every year since then: [2019], [2020], [2021], [2022]. +As I'm writing this I'm actually off on vacation (and will be for another week or so) and also it's super early here. +Nonetheless it's time to look back and forward. + +So what have I been up to in the past year? +My team changed again. We onboarded Perry and Bruno and when Mike left we got Alessio as the manager of us all. +In September we finally met again at the Mozilla All Hands in Hawaii. +Not everyone was there, but it was great to meet those that were. +I also went to the Berlin office more often. It's still good to have that other place to work from. + +I didn't add any new posts to the ["This Week in Glean"][twig] series and it was effectively retired. +I still believe that openly communicating about our work is very useful and would like to see more of that again. +Maybe I'll find some topics to write about this year +(and I have some drafts lying around I should finish). +One major piece of work in the past year was migrating Glean to use [UniFFI]. +That [shipped][gleanuniffi] and I'm proud we rolled it out. +Beyond that I spent large parts of my time supporting our users (other Mozilla applications, mostly mobile), +fixing bugs and slowly tackling some feature improvements. + +And what is for the next year? +I'm in the process of handing over my Glean SDK tech lead role to Travis. +After over 2 years I feel it's the right time to give up some responsibility and decision power over the project. +I believe that sharing responsibilities and empowering others to fill tech lead positions is an overwhelmingly good and important thing. + +This shift will free me up to expand my work into other places. +I'm staying with the same team and of course a major part of my work will be on the SDK regardless, +but I also hope to expand my knowledge about our data systems end-to-end and have a high-level view and opinion about it. +For the most part Glean feels "complete", but of course there's always feature requests, use cases we want to support better and improvements to make. +My list of little things I would like to improve keeps growing, but now also gets new items beyond just the SDK. + +To the next year and beyond! + +## Thank you + +Thanks to my team mates [Alessio], [Chris], [Travis], [Perry] and [Bruno] +and also thanks to the bigger data engineering team within Mozilla. +And thanks to all the other people at Mozilla I work with. + +[joinedmoz]: /2018/02/18/a-new-job/ +[2019]: /2019/03/01/one-year-moziversary/ +[2020]: /2020/03/02/two-year-moziversary/ +[2021]: /2021/03/01/three-year-moziversary/ +[2022]: /2022/03/04/four-year-moziversary/ +[Chris]: https://chuttenblog.wordpress.com/ +[Travis]: https://blogoftravis.wordpress.com/ +[Alessio]: https://www.a2p.it/wordpress/ +[Perry]: https://github.com/perrymcmanis144/ +[Bruno]: https://rosahbruno.github.io/ +[uniffi]: https://github.com/mozilla/uniffi-rs/ +[gleanuniffi]: https://github.com/mozilla/glean/releases/tag/v50.0.0 +[twig]: https://mozilla.github.io/glean/book/appendix/twig.html