Joining Red Hat

Growing up in Toronto, my family used to visit our friends the Ushers each year for Passover seder. As kids, my sister and I would thrill to find the Afikoman - a hidden piece of matzah children usually compete to find, often cashing it in for sweet prizes from the adults. By my teen years, I was already too old to expect candy and toys, but what can we do - the afikoman search had to go on. So one year, Mr. Usher asked a victorious young me which charity he should donate the 'afikoman gelt' to. I had spent that year soaking up the GNU manifesto, delighting in Knoppix ISOs, and cheering the rise of the open web, so it didn't take me long to answer: I asked him to donate to the Free Software Foundation.

Fast forward to today...

It's a delight to announce that I'm joining Red Hat as a Principal Front-End Developer, working on web components, starting after the Sukkot holiday. I was too excited to wait for the fedora to ship, so I went downtown and got myself a red kippah :D

The idea of writing open-source software for a living, & web components at that, is just flabbergasting. It's an incredible privilege & a wonderful opportunity. I owe many thanks to too many people to list here, although I've been in touch with you privately already - Thank you!