The engineering lead of Google’s Fuchsia operating system, Chris McKillop, has announced his departure from Google.

Google has been known to be developing Fuchsia as a from-scratch operating system since at least 2016. Fuchsia ultimately saw its first launch last year on the first-gen Nest Hub smart display. For much of that time, the Fuchsia project has been headed up by Director of Engineering Chris McKillop.

With a successful launch now in the rearview and Fuchsia firmly on the path to greater things, McKillop has announced on Twitter that he has left Google after ten years with the company. During that time, in addition to starting the Fuchsia project, McKillop helped shape the Flutter team — which has long had close ties to Fuchsia — and was also briefly involved with the Android TV team.

I don’t eat quiche, I make operating systems. I started Fuchsia at Google 7 years ago, built the team and shipped F1->F4.1.2. Amazing journey and I cannot wait to see where Fuchsia goes next!

Prior to working at Google, McKillop was also on