Thread by @dpatil

Some personal news after a year of working on COVID issues & what I’ll be doing next:

1/ I’m stepping back from operational duties @DevotedHealth as CTO & joined the board. The mission is 💪💯 the Tech team is 🔥💯 & our new co-CTOs are outstanding. PS, we’re hiring!

2/ Many have asked-- yes, I can confirm that I was Sr. Staff & CTO of Biden-Harris Transition & thrilled for the team that is in place. I’m proud of the plans & the team is doing💪🙌🇺🇸 work & expect the team to keep getting better!

3/ There is a huge amount of work ahead & I hope you’ll consider joining to serve. Apply to @USDS, @18F, & usajobs.gov

And don't forget that you can serve at the State and in your local city/county level too!

🇺🇸 needs you

4/ a massive thank you to all the volunteers & everyone that has helped this year on COVID. You’ve stepped up & stepped in to fill the void. From building CALCAT, creating @USDS , @COVID19Tracking , @CovidActNow & so many others. You’re proved that citizen scientists 💪💪💪

5/ thank you to the CA State Gov for letting me jump in to lend a hand. Y’all are amazing people. The public will never get to see how heroic🦸🦸‍♀️ you all are. I see you.

The fight of COVID is far from over & tremendous amount of work to be done.

More are needed to serve!

6/ So, what will I be doing? TBH, I’m not sure yet. I hope to do some more writing.

If you have topics you’d like me to write about, let me know.

Definitely, try to be a better parent & partner after a year of not being present.

And get a🐕🤞

7/ None of this would be possible w/o my amazing partner Devika who picks up the slack & gives me permission to do this work

8/ If you’re interested you can catch me & @alexismadrigal at @cwclub on March 24th commonwealthclub.org/events/2021-03…

PS lots of great talks coming up on @INFORUMsf
I'll be interviewing more amazing people there too

9/ I get to hang out with my friends and heroes at @NIH - @NIDAnews on Bringing Data Science to Addiction Research on March 15th & you can register here seiservices.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

8/ I’m super excited about a number of the companies I’ve been involved with and hopefully get a chance to meet/support/invest in more awesome founders & teams.

Want to work at @DevotedHealth? careers.devoted.com

9/ If people are interested, I'm happy to post companies and links of the great teams that are looking for talent.

10/ 9/ I want to emphasize, all of the above is because of AMAZING people I get to work with. They are the real heroes. This is a team sport.

11/ It’s important to acknowledge how much loss has happened this past year. To those that have lost a loved one, I’m so sorry. To those that are struggling financially or emotionally, I see you. I know we need to do better as a society to take care of you. Help is coming.

12/ This was written in Aug & still very much true. medium.com/@dpatil/6-less…

I’ll be soon writing up my lessons learned over this past year and what we need to do next.

13/ And we let’s not forget about what we need to do on national security matters medium.com/@dpatil/testif…

14/ Let me end this w/ a note of optimism. This past year has been hard. Hard on democracy, hard on families, hard, hard, hard. But, I’ve seen people step up in remarkable ways. And if we keeping doing that, we’re going be ok. We can build back better.

15/ Finally! Wear a mask😷. Get vaccinated💉! And take care of each other!
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