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Farewell Oracle – Jonathan Giles

 7 years ago
source link: http://jonathangiles.net/farewell-oracle/
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tl;dr: Today is my last day working at Oracle as a Consulting Member of Technical Staff in the Java team. I'm exploring new work opportunities right now and have a few opportunities I'm considering. If you want to employ me, email me today. As they say, all good things must come to an end, and today marks the end of a big part of my life for the last nine years - I'm leaving Oracle. I came in to Oracle through the Sun Microsystems acquisition, and I have to say that it feels extremely bittersweet, as I've had the great fortune to work on Java itself with a collection of people from both inside Sun / Oracle, and the wider community of Java developers via Twitter, various conferences, and my inbox, many of whom became great friends in the process. Everyone I have worked with has been hugely professional and talented, and to say I enjoyed it immensely would be an understatement. Being able to work on Java was a dream come true for me, and I wish my colleagues at Oracle all the best as

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