Happy to announce that I'm changing roles at Canonical, moving down the stack to join the Snappy team. It is in some ways a formalization of my most recent work which has been more on application lifecycle and containment than higher level stuff like indicators and other user services. I'll be working on the core snappy team to ensuring that snappy works for a wide variety of use cases, from small sensors embedded in your world to phones to services running in the cloud. For me Snappy formalizes a lot of trends that we're seeing all over computing today so I'm excited to get more involved with it.

To kick things off I'll be working on making Snaps easier to build and maintain using the native dependency systems that exist already for most languages. The beautiful part about bundling is that we no longer have to force our dependency system on others, they can choose what works best for them. But, we still need to make integrating with it easy.

New adventures bringing new challenges are where I like to roam. I'll still be around though, and might even contribute a patch or two to some of my old haunts.


posted Jun 10, 2015 | permanent link