On Jan 28, 2025 I awoke to an email stating that Nuna (the company that I worked for) was dropping their core business and that I was laid off. I was neither surprised nor upset….
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My Career – Part 24: Nuna
At the time that I joined Nuna, their core business was focused on supporting value based healthcare. My job at Nuna was tightly intertwined with the business logic needed to support value based healthcare. Rather…
My Career – Part 23: Joining Nuna
My experience joining Nuna was so bizarre and unexpected that I figured that it warranted its own chapter. In October 2021, I decided to leave Niantic after a phone call with Piaw. Piaw then sent…
My Career – Part 22: Leaving Niantic
I always thought that companies fell into one of two categories: evil or insignificant. Most companies have very little impact in any meaningful way. These companies might do fun work, but in the grand scheme…
My Career – Part 21: Niantic: How I made #1 on a Cracked listicle
One day I was scrolling through cracked.com (as I do almost daily) and while reading an article titled “5 Security Flaws In Games that Caused Catastrophes”, I found that I had made #1 on the…
My Career – Part 20: Niantic: Fixing anti-cheat
I want to describe the anti-cheat system that we built without providing enough specifics that would allow people to bypass it. The new anti-cheat initiative had the following goals: We decided to built two separate…
My Career – Part 19: Niantic: Anti-cheat
I was made the technical lead for Niantic’s anti-cheat initiative. Before I describe the experience, it might be useful for me to describe Niantic’s anti-cheat problem. At the time that I joined Niantic, they only…
My Career – Part 18: Niantic: The first year
After leaving Microsoft, I gave myself two months to find another job. I hit leetcode pretty hard and started learning about other areas (my entire career up to this point was kind of niche –…
My Career – Part 17: What I learned at Microsoft
I learned a lot while at Microsoft (I was there over 20 years – I better have!) There were a lot or REALLY smart and passionate people (which equated to a LOT of swearing 😊),…
My Career – Part 16: Leaving Microsoft
When I started at Microsoft, Windows was the golden goose – it made lots of money and was extremely relevant. We even got labeled a monopoly by the DOJ (yay?) There was always lots of…