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+title: "Five-year Moziversary"
+published_date: "2023-03-01 08:00:00 +0200"
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+  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