My Secret Project is complete! After three months of job-hunting, today I accepted an offer from Skybox Imaging, a startup in Mountain View. I’ll be coordinating five software teams as well as improving processes across the company – a perfect match for my professional interests.
As an additional bonus, Skybox is doing The Coolest Stuff Ever. At least, it’s doing the coolest stuff I’ve seen since I came to the Valley over a decade ago. They are doing high-resolution satellite imagery – which is only mildly interesting until you realize that they are building the satellites themselves!! They are making small satellites about the size of a dorm fridge, from off-the-shelf parts, and writing all the software to control the satellite, fly it, and download the data. This is so infinitely cool I can’t even begin to tell you how cool it is. So I am super excited about this position. So thrilled, in fact, that I can’t sleep and am writing blog posts instead. 🙂
I’ll be starting at Skybox on May 28. I can hardly wait!
Congratulations!
CongaRats
Tien, the new job sounds just wonderful! We should all have jobs that make us excited to go to work every day.
Congrats!
Refrigerators in the sky. It reminds me of the old favorite screen saver: toasters in the sky. Of course, I understand they’re much more than refrigerators. And congratulations. You’re rather an amazing person with all the things you do. I’m awed.
congratulations–enjoy the new job!
Hope it’s everything you wish for 🙂