Holy crap, I’m moving to Switzerland!
It’s been a bit quiet around here for the last couple of months. A quick brain dump.
In February I left my job helping to run the mail systems at Citigroup, having sorted myself out with a contracting role doing software development in Perl (with some Autosys and Murex mangling on the side) for the nice people at Brevan Howard. Quite definitely some of the nicest people I’ve had the pleasure of working with in the financial industry. If you’re a London-based Perl developer looking for work and the opportunity for a contract with them comes up, jump at it.
Along the way I finally got around to sorting myself out with a Flickr account, and you can see my photos at http://www.flickr.com/photos/nikclayton/. Not something I’ve written much about, but that may change in the future.
Anyway, that proved to be temporary. No, they didn’t fire me. Instead, in two days time I jump on a plane bound for Zurich, to start working as a site reliability engineer for Google Switzerland.
I was over there a couple of weeks ago as part of a preview-cum-orientation trip, which coincided with the once-every-three-years Züri Fäscht (Zurich Festival), so I took the opportunity to snap a few shots of fireworks.
Anyway, I hope to write more next week about the process, useful sites for people undergoing a similar move, and so on. That, and getting back to contributing to projects like Subversion — my free time has been practically non-existent for the past 4 months or so, and that’s something that I’ve let slip.