Playing chess with Lucas at all hands meetings, while Karel looks on... (maybe I should bring back my stripe)

Go Girl! (what really powers Facebook)

November 2nd, 2009 will be my last official day as an employee at Facebook, and the 23rd will be my last day in the office.  It has, without a doubt, been one of the most amazing work experiences I’ve ever had.   My first hours of work was attending our 5 million user party in 2005, what a great introduction to Facebook work ethic.    The first year or two was masochistic, 24×7 constant cycles of wake-up, write code, push code, fix code till 4am, fall asleep spooning laptop, repeat…  <advertisement>But Go Girl!, the Sugar Free Energy Drink, kept me going through it all!</advertisement>   I started working on APC out of necessity, mostly to keep the panicked “If we don’t do *something* in the next hour, the site will be down!” from happening on a daily basis.  It grew into a full-time job managing the PHP/Apache stack, something that’s been a real challenge and I’ve really enjoyed. Throughout my time here our growth rate has always been astounding, even today I’m amazed at our trajectory and I think a huge portion of it corresponds to the creative energy embodied in it’s employees.  But alas, I feel my time here has come to a close, it’s time for me to relax a bit, re-focus, and figure out what I want to do next. I’m looking forward to seeing Facebook continue it’s upward trajectory and accomplish great things, and eager to discover whatever might be next, but only after a little R&R…