Brad Lovering, a previous Microsoft Technical Fellow who left the organization in October 2010, has a new gig. Lovering is opening the Seattle office for San Francisco-based Splunk, a corporation that indexes real-time and historical IT data.The Splunk Seattle office, which will likely be dedicated 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.Lovering 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.“I was at Microsoft so long. It was a universe” in and of itself, Lovering told me. Not being much of “a actual networking kind of guy,” his first order of organization was to meet with anyone and everyone who sounded even remotely interesting,
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