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.

That does mean I’ll be scaling back my Rust contributions over the next few months before I start my new job. Sorry to the folks who were looking forward to stuff I had in the pipeline. I really would’ve liked to deliver async fn in dyn traits or `-Zhigher-ranked-assumptions`.

I urge companies to take funding contributors seriously, in ways that aren’t tied to projects and goals. Being a generalist in the compiler meant that often I wasn’t working towards a roadmap, but my contributions *always* paid off in the long term extensibility of the language.