Brecht Van Lommel joins the Blender Institute as full time Blender and Cycles developer

The Blender 2.8 Code Quest has ended, but Brecht won’t be coming home! He’s returning to the Blender Institute (again ;-) as a full-time developer.
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Good post-CodeQuest news: Brecht Van Lommel joins the Blender Institute as full time Blender and Cycles developer. #b3d
— Blender ? (@Blender) July 5, 2018

That is some really good news.
Can’t wait to see what he does here.. Wonder if there will be a quick interview with him to get input form him what he wants to do with Cycles.
Hopefully some OpenCL optimization ? I really have enough of waiting for the kernel to compile every time I open Blender.
Very good news for Blender! Poor Brecht will for ever be haunted by this one unfortunate photo of him :D
Awesome news! I really hope he continue pushing cycles to the limit!
Wooowwh! Great news!
YES! Yes! We won him back from ADSK! : )
Welcome back Brecht!
Brecht I love you <3