So I've finallllllly left Y! Search, doing the internal transfer dance back to the main campus. Now, I'm 'doin' mah thang' on the i18n Tiger Team, mostly adapting webapps (HTML-based, Flash-based, client-side frameworks, server-side libs, etc.) to support multiple languages. I've always believed all software should be language-agnostic, much like how Answers has been deployed to 15-20 diff. countries. It's much harder than people think and certainly much more than just encoding your content as UTF-8. I've got lots to learn ....
It's bittersweet to leave after watching the team grow from the 8-10 weekend warriors to over 60+, the number of servers shooting from 15-20 to 250+ presently .... a total of 20 action-packed, drama-ridden months in Social Search, beginning in August 2005 .... the Answers Beta, the Donald Trump barrage, the GA release, the "Ask the Planet" campaign, late-night Mario Kart racin', the Superstar award ceremony at Spago, the Better Bookmarks launch, del.icio.us stuff (top secret) and finally the Peeps network ....
It's been one hellava run.Labels: career, del.icio.us, i18n, socialsearch, yanswers, ybookmarks