Today’s my last day at AWS working on the Rust compiler. Unfortunately, back in July I received notice that I had to choose between moving to Boston from NYC, or leaving the company due to RTO policy. I unfortunately couldn’t abandon the city I plan on being my long term home.

I’m glad I got the opportunity to do amazing work on Rust over the last 3 years. It’s hard to quantify, but I hope people saw a difference due to my work on async traits/closures, the type system, diagnostics, style team, ICE fixes, internal refactors, speedups, edition 2024 etc.

Unfortunately, it was not possible to snag a new job working on Rust in the way that I do today (type system/compiler frontend) especially with the freedom I have today, and I couldn't possibly be jobless for an indeterminate amount of time waiting for the right role to show up.