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i know in reporting for the public it makes more sense to call tim bray a vp but it’s both more significant and also less unexpected that he’s a distinguished engineer
the loss of high level engineering talent is both a weaker and stronger signal than the loss of a high level business executive it's a sign a company has "lost its soul" or whatever but also unless it's matched on the business/product side it's not gonna change the direction
I think in a lot of other industries it's not really possible for an IC to have the same level as an executive so it might not be immediately obvious to most people how important this guy was.
yeah i totally get why they say vp it's just that vp implies an exec who's in that role because of business alignment which would be more surprising of a "morals" departure, vs those with engineering clout (who've been the ones leaving already at google etc)
TIL he co-authored XML spec!
he even lists it as "VP/Distinguished Engineer" on his site which i found interesting. normally "VP" implies part of the exec org, not eng, which made me pause at first. even if AWS has different org structure, it's odd. but the VP angle is certainly more eye catching for news
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