Here is a lightly edited version of a message that I just sent out to a broad set of people at Google, announcing my… retirement?
Todd Kopriva has left the building.
I’m on vacation starting March 5th, and my last day is April 3rd.
If working at Google has been a game, I think that I did well on assists, having reviewed CLs1 for 1404 people. I can be proud of that.
For the next year or so, I’m going to be a dutiful househusband while my wife finishes her graduate education in structural engineering. With any time remaining, I’ll see where my volunteer efforts might help with non-profit journalism. Oh, and I’m sure that I’ll be spending a lot of time doing nonsense like this.
After a year? [* shrug *] I’m pretty sure that my life will map somewhat to my pattern of learn, do, learn, do, learn, write, repeat.
I’ll probably have plenty of time to be social, so feel free to reach out.
PS: I don’t mind talking about why I’m leaving, but I would rather do that as individual conversations. The short version is that I was rather aligned with the company that I came to work for in 2017, and I have a harder time saying that now.
- A CL is a change list, which is a proposal to submit a change to source code in the internal repository. I reviewed more than 12,000 of these in my 7.3 years at Google, which is a lot. My main role was to make sure that people were making the right changes in the right way, especially in documents related to security. ↩︎
pophénie 
Welcome to retirement. It’s great that Sandy can complete her engineering degree. It seems you are both on the home stretch, just different homes. Congratulations to you both.
I’m looking forward to reading articles from your pen (or keyboard). Keep us posted and enjoy the year.
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