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It feels like far less than 4 years ago that I was writing my last blog post on changing jobs when I went from one orange logo to another. A lot has changed in the four years since I joined Cloudflare - the rise of generative AI has been the biggest by far. While my time at Cloudflare has been rewarding, it's time for a change. In a couple of week's I will be starting my new role as a Senior Software Engineer at Stripe on their Usage Based Billing (UBB) team, working out of their Seattle office. I found my role at Stripe almost by accident one day scrolling thru LinkedIn. Alec Peterson and I worked together from time to time back when I was a Call Leader at AWS; a few years after I left AWS, Alec did as well and is now the Head of Engineering. Through the algorithm of LinkedIn, Alec's post sharing a job posting on one of his teams surfaced in my feed, and the rest was history. UBB is one of those interesting fields where the problem at hand sounds simple enough, count, but at scale it

It feels like far less than 4 years ago that I was writing my last blog post on changing jobs when I went from one orange logo to another. A lot has changed in the four years since I joined Cloudflare - the rise of generative AI has been the biggest by far. While my time at Cloudflare has been rewarding, it's time for a change. In a couple of week's I will be starting my new role as a Senior Software Engineer at Stripe on their Usage Based Billing (UBB) team, working out of their Seattle office. I found my role at Stripe almost by accident one day scrolling thru LinkedIn. Alec Peterson and I w

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