Plaidophile

So now that the announcement has been made at work, I guess it's okay for me to talk about it here too: next Wednesday (the 29th) will be my last day at Sony. I've gotten a pretty interesting job at a tiny stealth-phase startup, where I'll be their Android platform and graphics specialist, and possibly doing stuff on iOS and a few other things too. The startup is pretty stealth and really doesn't want to be talked about (so I won't mention them by name here) but they're doing very interesting stuff in the world of mobile media collaboration and the like (real-time low-latency audio/video stuff). It's a very scary move for me, but it's one of those rare opportunities that I'd absolutely regret not taking.

I won't be starting at the startup until July 18, so in the meantime I am free for socializing, and also I have a couple of toy Android apps I've been meaning to write in the meantime. Hopefully I'll have a chance to actually see the parts of San Francisco I've been meaning to see for the last four years.

For all the issues inherent to working in a small group in a large international megacorporation, the last four years at Sony have actually been a great experience with some amazing coworkers, and I hope to see the products I've been working on actually make it to market (which they should be fairly soon).