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title: "A new job"
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published_date: "2018-02-18 16:00:00 +0100"
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---
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In September 2012 I was hired by [rrbone](https://www.rrbone.net/) to work as a software developer alongside my studies.
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Over the last 5 years I worked on multiple projects, some internal tools, some external work with and for clients
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and was also allowed to consult customers on-site or give Rust trainings.
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In addition, rrbone covered some of my conference visits, became the [main sponsor](https://otsconf.com/#sponsors) of otsconf, the first conference I organized,
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and allowed me to attend other events under sponsorships.
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Together we built networks for [large festivals](http://juicybeats.net/de), [small unconferences](http://2014.railscamp.de/sponsors/) and [other community conferences](https://ruhrjs.de/).
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I was allowed to write Rust code for an opera play and [open-source it](https://github.com/rrbone/midioscar),
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attended [IETF 91 in Honolulu, Hawaii](https://www.instagram.com/p/vM70WwStE1/), and learned a ton about networks and how the internet works (sometimes it doesn't).
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All of that while I was still studying.
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**For all of this I am very grateful.**
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Thanks [Dominik](https://twitter.com/dominikbay), for being my boss and friend for such a long time and for all the things I could learn.
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But now after five years it is time for new challenges.
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**I will join Mozilla as a Firefox Telemetry Engineer, starting next Month.**
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Back in 2015 I met [Flaki](https://twitter.com/slsoftworks),
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who later pushed me to [give my very first conference talk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9sTIi7wFPo).
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Shortly after that he introduced me to the [Mozilla Tech Speaker](https://wiki.mozilla.org/TechSpeakers) program.
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Not soon after I became a Tech Speaker, attended conferences and meetups as a speaker and worked closer with Mozilla.
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Since then I met a lot of people working at or with Mozilla, some of who I consider friends by now.
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When I finished university last year some of the same people pushed me to apply at Mozilla,
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especially [Ola](https://twitter.com/misprintedtype).
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I did and today I can announce that it paid off and they hired me.
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Taking this new job also means I will move to Berlin soon.
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As a Telemetry Engineer I will work on improving the quality of Firefox and help different teams to instrument new features in Firefox.
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I'm incredibly excited to work on this project together with folks from whom I can learn a thing or two (probably a lot more).
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