“At the time I left, out of ~150k employees, only ~300 had worked there longer than me.”
He built Chrome for Linux and Ninja, and pushed TypeScript into Google’s core languages. He was one of about 30 people who could approve code anywhere in the company. A bureaucratic mistake over his move out of California put his job in question anyway. Google lost a 17-year engineer to paperwork, and Figma got him.