That makes it sound uneventful. The team shared multiple video-call hours of heartfelt goodbyes over the past week, and many promises to get coffee when we are all comfortable going to coffee shops again. At least five former coworkers made surprise appearances to wish me well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I spent 5.7 years at Code.org. As of today, that represents three-quarters of the organization’s history. Code.org has served more than one billion Hours of Code<\/a> and enrolled more than 50 million students<\/a> in our courses. We have seen policy changes supporting CS in all 50 states<\/a>. Our curriculum is used in over 180 countries around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n During my tenure, the engineering team\u00a0published about 1,775 releases<\/a>.\u00a0 I\u00a0personally merged nearly 2,000 pull requests<\/a>\u00a0(a pull request is a documented contribution; it can represent hours or weeks of work) and I\u00a0reviewed more than 2,300 pull requests by my teammates<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But I think my legacy at Code.org is not the code I wrote. One of my senior colleagues commented yesterday that I joined a group of engineers, but I am leaving a coherent team. I have certainly tried to model a highly collaborative approach to software. “Interruptibility is a virtue; the hivemind is smarter than any of us; multiply others first; collaboration solves motivation; everyone is a project lead; we own failures together.” I’ve been throwing these words around for years now. I believe they are principles that lead to happy, effective software teams and I’ve seen them bear fruit at Code.org.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What’s next? Two weeks of vacation, preferably offline!\u00a0 We are unplugging with a pile of books for a bit. At the end of the month, I will be joining Google as an engineering manager.\u00a0 I’ll probably be working from home well into next year.\u00a0 When we do return to offices, I will commute to Kirkland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" August 14, 2020 was my last\u00a0day\u00a0at Code.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,24,474,8],"tags":[429],"class_list":["post-1703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-featured","category-manager","category-programmer","tag-code-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1703"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1706,"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703\/revisions\/1706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/brad-at-code-dot-org-749x1024.png\")
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I’ve enjoyed working in public, which makes it easy to share all of this with you. Some contributions that I’m especially proud of:<\/p>\n\n\n\n