This Friday was my last day as a software engineer for rPath. I'm going to be moving on to a new role in the same company: I'm starting Monday as a field engineer (otherwise known as a sales engineer), which means I won't be doing core development anymore. Here's a good general description of the job: What "Sales Engineers" Do. I will be spending most of my time with prospective customers and I'll be doing a lot of traveling.

I've had a great time in core engineering and I've worked with some positively fantastic people in our organization. I'll definitely miss spending a lot of time with all of our engineering team, but I'm sure that I'll find enough time to give them a hard time when they deserve it.

In keeping with rPath's great tradition of tossing folks right into the deep end, I'm going to be in San Francisco all next week. I'll be spending most of the week visiting customers and delivering training, but on Thursday, September 20th, I will be at the Intel Developer Forum. If anyone who reads this is going to the forum, I'd love to say hi. Similarly, if anyone in the Bay Area wants to get together for a coffee or a drink or something, just let me know! (Hi, VMware guys!)