The main mobile developer of Facebook left the company

Mobile developer Joe Hewitt said on his blog Friday about leaving Facebook:

Today was my last day on Facebook. Usually, when I quit, I curse management with the thought that I had to leave much earlier. In the case of Facebook, I sent sincere letters to all my managers, thanking them for the privilege given to me to work there, and I really do not mind. Facebook was the company I worked for the longest and also the best employer I've ever had.

Recently, he worked on Facebook integration into Android after leaving the iPhone team due to disagreement with Apple's policies. Hewitt was responsible for creating the Facebook iPhone app, which is currently the most downloaded iPhone app of all time. And before the advent of the App Store, he created the iPhone version of Facebook, which was also very popular.

He describes the work on Facebook in this way:

Working on Facebook is like having your own startup, but with a salary instead of cheap noodles. Management gave me the opportunity to work on my own ideas, and, as with real startups, some of my projects never leave the laboratory, while others are used and are a huge success. The brilliance of Facebook management is that it encourages everyone to take the initiative, take risks and engage in as many projects as possible. I wish more tech companies run like this.

Before joining Facebook (where he got after Facebook bought his company Parakey), Hewitt was involved in various open source projects. He is called one of the creators of the original Firefox, and his authorship is the first version of the Firebug extension, which he considers his best project.

Regarding his future, he wrote:

And so, I am now independent, and I am going to understand the needs of modern developers and designers, and create software to meet these needs. There are so many possibilities that I cannot even predict what I will end up with, but I'm sure I know where I am going to start. I can not wait.