Thank you for all of your contribution. Good luck with your new venture. On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 10:17 PM Eugene Kirpichov <kirpic...@google.com> wrote:
> Hi beamers, > > After 5.5 years working on data processing systems at Google, several of > these years working on Dataflow and Beam, I am moving on to do something > new (also at Google) in the area of programming models for machine > learning. Anybody who worked with me closely knows how much I love building > programming models, so I could not pass up on the opportunity to build a > new one - I expect to have a lot of fun there! > > On the new team we very much plan to make things open-source when the time > is right, and make use of Beam, just as TensorFlow does - so I will stay in > touch with the community, and I expect that we will still work together on > some things. However, Beam will no longer be the main focus of my work. > > I've made the decision a couple months ago and have spent the time since > then getting things into a good state and handing over the community > efforts in which I have played a particularly active role - they are in > very capable hands: > - Robert Bradshaw and Ankur Goenka on Google side are taking charge of > Portable Runners (e.g. the Portable Flink runner). > - Luke Cwik will be in charge of the future of Splittable DoFn. Ismael > Mejia has also been involved in the effort and actively helping, and I > believe he continues to do so. > - The Beam IO ecosystem in general is in very good shape (perhaps the best > in the industry) and does not need a lot of constant direction; and it has > a great community (thanks JB, Ismael, Etienne and many others!) - however, > on Google side, Chamikara Jayalath will take it over. > > It was a great pleasure working with you all. My last day formally on Beam > will be this coming Friday, then I'll take a couple weeks of vacation and > jump right in on the new team. > > Of course, if my involvement in something is necessary, I'm still > available on all the same channels as always (email, Slack, Hangouts) - > but, in general, please contact the folks mentioned above instead of me > about the respective matters from now on. > > Thanks! >
