{"id":340,"date":"2009-03-29T15:35:22","date_gmt":"2009-03-29T14:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/albertomilone.com\/wordpress\/?p=340"},"modified":"2009-03-29T15:35:22","modified_gmt":"2009-03-29T14:35:22","slug":"on-my-new-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/on-my-new-job\/","title":{"rendered":"On my New Job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been almost a month now since I started working for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Canonical_Ltd.\">Canonical<\/a>. I was hired as a \u201c<strong>Sustaining Engineer (System)<\/strong>\u201d in the <strong>Foundations team<\/strong> which, in turn, is part of the <strong>OEM Services team<\/strong>, whose offices are located in Lexington, Massachussets, USA (I work from home though).<\/p>\n<p>I mainly do work on <strong>X.org<\/strong> related stuff (e.g. touchpads, graphics drivers, etc.) in order to solve problems such as the ones that Canonical&#8217;s customers report and to develop new things (I hope to be able to blog about my new projects).<\/p>\n<p>I really like this job as it allows me to work on the things I&#8217;m passionate about in a very friendly and relaxed work environment. It means a lot to me.<\/p>\n<p>I would like to thank all the people who made this possible, the ones who kept providing me with new challenges in Ubuntu which made me acquire experience that is proving extremely valuable in my job. I would also like to thank all the people who supported me and encouraged me to apply for this job at Canonical, my team mates and team manager(s) who helped me move my first steps at work and to feel at ease and deeply involved in the OEM team, and the impressive amount of people who congratulated me on IRC on my first day of work. It was a warm welcome that I&#8217;ll never forget.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an honour to work with you and I hope we can all work together to fix <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/ubuntu\/+bug\/1\">bug #1<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I hope to see you at the next UDS in Barcelona in May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been almost a month now since I started working for Canonical. I was hired as a \u201cSustaining Engineer (System)\u201d in the Foundations team which, in turn, is part of the OEM Services team, whose offices are located in Lexington, Massachussets, USA (I work from home though). I mainly do work on X.org related stuff <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/on-my-new-job\/\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gnulinux","category-planet","category-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}