Brad Lovering, a former Microsoft Technical Fellow who left the company in October 2010, has a new gig. Lovering is opening the Seattle workplace for San Francisco-based Splunk, an organization that indexes real-time and historical IT data. Splunk Seattle office, which will be devoted to R&D, will open on February 8, according to Lovering, who has already been on the new job for a couple of weeks as Splunk’s Vice President of Development Platform. was a 24-plus-year Microsoft veteran — and most recently head of the disintegrating Microsoft Oslo modeling effort — when he left Microsoft last year. Lovering gave himself three months to investigate the Seattle market, something he needed to do, given Microsoft was the only place he had worked since college. was at Microsoft so long. It was a universe” in and of itself,
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