Ex-FAANGs, what are you doing now?

👋, I was Facebook 2009 to 2017. Went from intern to E7 level (principal) software engineer. Went from 200-something engineers to somewhere around 10,000 when I left. The company's valuation increased over 100X (until the recent decline). The world changed a lot during this time. I was burned out and left a little too late. After leaving, I got married, and my wife (former Nextdoor) started a free iOS coding bootcamp, completely out of pocket. She had mentored at a bunch of bootcamps and they were not cutting it. It was small but the students all went on to do pretty awesome things, they are now at LinkedIn, Apple, Facebook, Google, and more! I have a passion for mentoring as well so I joined her about 2 years later, we raised funding, and started building out a more scaled up, paid, training and coaching service called Formation ([formation.dev](https://formation.dev)) . Our mission is to help software engineers from underrepresented and non traditional backgrounds break into top tier industry roles. Assembling everything I learned about building product for billions of people and interview and growing teams at Facebook to build something really unique and special. I was a "coding machine" at Facebook and after that 2ish year break, I'm a now a coding machine again, with \~20K GitHub contributions in the past 2-3 years. I'm working 24/7 on helping Fellows, helping my incredible team, and helping change the tech landscape. It's even harder than my work at Facebook, but the training wheels are off and I'm firing on all cylinders.