From Cloud to Search
I'm moving to the engineering team responsible for the main Google Search user interface!
— Eamonn O'Brien-Strain šØāš»ššš®šŖšŖšŗšŗš²šŗš³āļø (@eob) August 19, 2018
Sad to be leaving my amazing colleagues in Cloud and Firebase, but so excited to be learning new tech and working on a product that has transformed the world and touches billions of people.
On Twitter yesterday I made a big announcement that Iām moving to a new team within Google.
For most of my five years at the company I have been working on products for external developers, first for App Engine where I lead the memcache team, then for Firebase and Cloud where I worked on privacy, security rules, and serverless events.
But now I am about to move to the team responsible for the main Google Search user interface. This is a huge change. Iām moving from infrastructure engineering to front-end engineering. And instead of building products for millions of developers, Iām building products for billions of end-users.
And this seems like a good time to make yet another attempt to start writing a regular blog. Iām going to start by eschewing the complexities of modern web development, using simple, plain handwritten HTML files. Now that Iām a front-end developer again, I can practice my skills here.