alt Hacker NewsLeaving Intel
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A "goodbye" post after only 3.5 years. Hard to relate.
In my world it's hard to imagine an impact after that short of a time. And in fact, reading the list of accomplishments ("interviewed by the Wall Street Journal") makes it clear it's a good PR piece.
I'm perfectly willing to believe he's fabulous, but this didn't move the needle for me.
He doesn’t mention it in this post, but in another post he talked about the toll of needing to frequently attend meetings in the middle of the night in his time zone.
Whatever his reasons for leaving, I hope that he finds a better balance in his new role.
I see some mean comments. I suppose maybe people doesn't know Brendan Gregg's work, this guy reserve some respect.
Wow is it me or is the self promotion strong in this one.
Masterclass in turning a goodbye email into a hire me after my next gig ends. I’m not being sarcastic, this is a great example of highlighting the value they added.
Leading the article with AI stuff is certainly a choice. If that's what they've ben spending their time on lately, maybe this is good for Intel.
Intel losing great people at high speed. Not the first, not the last.
If my back of the envelope math is right, in the last 6 months he’s been attending more meetings at possibly odd hours; he lives in Australia and Intel is based in the USA.
See https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2025-05-22/3-years-of-extr...
77 meetings then, but 110 meetings in his resignation blog post…
What's with the retro gear on the desk?
Do you use it much and what for?
In particular Commodore tape player.
A periodic reminder Intel is still in business.
I’m wonder how much longer Intel will be around. It seems to be dying a slow death like Kodak or IBM at this point.
Leaving intel? That’s one case where an employee won’t get chastised for
Congratulations. A fulfilling life.
I mean I understand if someone like Keller writes such posts but some dude claiming to have hosted conference events and some kind of process flame graph which could have been done by anyone…
Terrible news from Intel, this guy seems like the best performance engineer on the planet
I'm guessing he'll land at one of the big frontier model companies. I'm surprised he stayed at Intel as long as he did, they are dying fast.
In the photo of him on his last day [0], there's a cassette deck on his desk.
That could be something mundane, but I'd like to believe something crazy happens if you yell at it [1]...
[0] https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/images/2025/brendanoffice2...
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dude loves the color salmon
> "I also supported cloud computing, participating in 110 customer meetings, and created a company-wide strategy to win back the cloud with 33 specific recommendations, in collaboration with others across 6 organizations."
Man people keep count of this stuff?! Maybe I should too, it does make flexing easier.