Bharath, I remember you from the early days of the Android 9 project, still relatively inexperienced but always interested, asking questions and willing to learn. Throughout the years you touched many different technical topics and I witnessed you become comfortable working with AOSP and all of its internals. It was nice to see you grow like that and to watch you become a fully established Android engineer. It was definitely a pleasure working with you and Harman throughout those years, and I have no doubt you will find another amazing opportunity to continue your journey. Thank you for all the work, and I wish you all the best for the future!

It has been a long journey indeed. On top of what Maarten already wrote I want to highlight how especially the Android 9 upgrade on Fairphone 2 has been a crucial research and learning experience for all of us. We did do the Android 7 upgrade before, but only with Android 9 did we as a team really start building solid knowledge on pushing Android software support way beyond industry standards. Thank you for everyone at Harman for the long term commitment and patience in projects that were difficult to plan and scope. Thank you Bharath for contributing to Fairphone projects for so many years now. Indeed you have started as a junior engineer and now have developed a broad and long term view onto the Android ecosystem that is quite unique. Your initiative for Android 10 on the Fairphone 2 was brave and again, unique. On Fairphone 3 you continued driving very fundamental implementation choices that set the baseline for the device's long life yet to come. You keep challenging in a positive and constructive way every aspect of the development and maintenance work, which brought us together as a team to solutions we could not have achieved without you. Thank you also for your determination towards the open sourcing work, it is one of the pillars for the longevity and transparency promise at Fairphone.