First Couple Days
August 20, 2024 by Adam in Adam
I survived my first couple days at Microsoft. I think I'm experiencing the software developer version of the Tetris Effect after trying to cram way too much information into my brain at once. Last night I kept waking up worrying about storage limitations of databases for some silly reason.
It all certainly feels overwhelming and working on a giant piece of software is going to be different than what I'm used to. Still, it all generally makes sense and hopefully all the new terminology sinks in at some point. Still waiting on hardware and security to be sorted out, but I think it'll be okay. Maybe I can do some baby sized bug fixes next week or something to get my feet wet. I look forward to being useful again.
Everyone I meet seems nice and bright, which is a good sign. I'm sure I'll get settled in one day.
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Going to Microsoft
July 29, 2024 by Adam in Adam
When I was a teenager visiting my grandparents in Pennsylvania they asked me what I wanted for my birthday. We were at a mall, so I went inside the computer store and picked out "Windows 1.0." I spent the rest of the trip reading it from cover to cover and installed it on the family PC when I got home. Such began my long association with Microsoft products, teaching the Office suite after graduate school, then starting work as a SQL Server developer then administrator in my PeaceHealth days.
Fourty years after that fateful birthday gift, I'm excited to announce that I've accepted a position at Microsoft and will be starting there in a couple weeks. I'll be reporting to Jonathan King, whom I've known for decades at both PeaceHealth and Health Catalyst. I'll be working on the Power BI product, which involves crunching data and making graphs and such, very much like the product I've worked on over the last seven years. With over 18 million customers, I'm excited to be able to make a difference with so many people.
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