I'm moving to New York

I'm going to be moving to New York City!

I'll be joining Goldman Sachs, working as a developer on a core part of their technology infrastructure. It's a big change for me -- the biggest company I've ever worked for so far only had about 200 people, and GS is approximately two orders of magnitude larger than that. I'll be working in a skyscraper right in downtown Manhattan, just a couple blocks from Wall Street and that bronze bull that you've probably seen pictures of before.

I've been asked to be discreet about the details of the job, so all I'll say is that it involves language design and optimization, highly scalable systems, and financial derivatives. Here's a paper that'll give you a flavor for what I'm talking about: Composing Financial Contracts, by Simon Peyton Jones. Unfortunately I won't actually be writing haskell code, but at least I'll be working with a group of people who deeply appreciate functional programming.

I won't actually be moving for a few months yet (date still TBD). In the meantime I'm still working at StreamBase, implementing cool new features for our upcoming release.