After 16 years I've officially hung up my Fedora.
Many years ago, while looking for a new position, my father asked me what would be the ultimate company to work for, and my answer was, "There's a company, Red Hat, that recently acquired a company, JBoss."
I had no idea I would spend the next 16 years working across 34 US states and in Belgium, Canada, England, India, Ireland, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, Singapore, and Switzerland.
It has been both an honor and a privilege to work with so many smart, dedicated people — Red Hatters and customers alike — to craft solutions using products that I believe in and to embrace open-source software.
I also have to say a special thank you to all the engineers who listened to my opinions, feedback, feature requests, and occasional rants, and at least pretended to take them seriously!
It was an incredibly difficult decision to make. But after thousands of conversations, customer meetings, demos, workshops, conference presentations, whiteboards, architecture debates, and late-night troubleshooting, I packed up and mailed my Red Hat laptops to Raleigh.
Thank you to everyone who shared a meeting room, conference stage, whiteboard, airport lounge, customer visit, or debugging session with me over the last 16 years.
It's been an amazing ride. On to the next adventure.
