ilya haykinson >> blog

After almost 6 years of working on the product, I’ve resigned from Kareo. It’s been a great journey through growing as a software developer and improving my architecture skills, spending almost two years as the manager of the development team, and in general seeing a real business grow from its foundation to something real. However, it’s now time to move on.

So to that end I’ve begun looking for a new place to work. (Here’s my resume, by the way). I’m not totally sure where I’ll end up, but I know about a few things that excite me (both on the business front as well as the technological front):

• In general, startup companies with solid business ideas
• Current (thrilling) changes in the .NET world (i.e. LINQ and other C# 3.0 features)
• The Mono Project and the availability of .NET on Linux
• Silverlight and Moonlight, as well as XAML and XUL
• Ubuntu’s success in creating a thrillingly useful Linux desktop
• Solving the many “App 2.0″ challenges of bringing desktop apps towards their web brethren
• Agile teams of smart people

If you know of places that are great in some way, let me know.

For the last few months I’ve been completely addicted to Doctor Who — I bumped into an episode on PBS, and ended up watching all of the new series (all three seasons). I then watched Torchwood (the “adult” spinoff), and have even started watching the entire old series. To that end, I’m keeping a blog, http://hookedonwho.wordpress.com, to chronicle my efforts — and my impressions.

Overall, I’ve got to say a giant Thank You to two entities: 1) Peer to Peer networks, which provided me with the the second and third seasons of the new series which was just not available in the US yet, not to mention Torchwood which is only starting in a few weeks having aired in the UK months ago, and 2) YouTube, whose users diligently upload old serials that are only available on (hard to find) VHS tapes, making it possible to watch almost the entire old series.