After much deliberation and soul-searching I’m changing jobs. Next Monday, November 26th is my last day at Spaceflight Industries. I will then have 3 glorious weeks of vacation before I start my new job at ExtraHop as a lead on their performance team.
I gave notice a month ago but I wanted to stay at SFI to support my team through our first commercial satellite launch — a launch that was suppose to take place today but is now delayed (the challenges of planning around rocket launches was one factor in my decision to leave the aerospace industry).
I’ve learned a great deal during my 2.5 years at Spaceflight Industries. I’ve worked with some brilliant and hardworking people, whom I will miss, and together we solved some really challenging problems in ingenious ways. I appreciate that SFI was willing to take a chance on me being a manager and giving me the flexibility to explore what that looked like for me.
That said, I’m looking forward to stepping back into an individual contributor position. While I’m told I was a good people manager it didn’t feed my soul and I found it really draining. I’ve had some really great managers over the past 18 years and attempting to live up to the high standards I set for myself was exhausting. I’m not ruling out going back into it in the future, but for now I’m excited to sink my teeth into some gnarly technical problems and to sling some code with the rest of the performance team.
I’m also looking forward to working, albeit indirectly, with the esteemed Jeena Khan and her team of writers! Frankly, I’m not certain ExtraHop knows what they’ve gotten themselves into with Jeena and I working together again. The building might not be able to contain our mutual enthusiasm!
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