Switching careers, next steps

I made one of the hardest decisions of my life, I’ll be leaving Mozilla, a company that I thought I’d be at forever. Mozilla has amazing people and culture, and is easily the best job I’ve ever had.

I plan to remain a contributor, both on the Code Firefox site, and on Firefox Desktop itself.

I’ll be joining Khan Academy, a like minded, mission oriented, open and non-profit company.

Khan Academy provides a free, world class education, to anyone, anywhere.

I’m leaving because the Khan Academy mission speaks more to me personally.

Along with that mission comes a lot of thoughts I believe in, such as:

• Sense of agency: Students should be responsible for their own educational goals.
• Mastery based learning: Students should have deep, sound understanding of concepts before progressing to concepts based on those concepts.
• Self paced learning: Students should progress at their own pace, as they’ve mastered concepts.
• Mentorship: Having peers teach, and having peers learn from each other comes with several amazing benefits.
• Interactive: Human connection and tangible experiences are important.

I’ll be joining the Computer Science department at Khan Academy in particular. I’m extremely excited for this new opportunity and I can’t wait to do amazing things at Khan Academy.