Matt Cutts, the former head of search quality at Google, has announced he officially resigned from Google as of December 31, 2016. He has decided to stay on with the US Digital Service and has been appointed the director of engineering for that governmental department.
Matt Cutts first went on leave at Google in 2014 and decided to extend his leave shortly thereafter. Then in May 2015, he was replaced in his job by an unnamed Googler. After that, he confirmed he was still on leave with Google.
In mid-2016, he started working with the US Digital Service team, and he has enjoyed it so much, he decided to make it official. He is officially no longer on leave with Google. He is now the director of engineering of the USDS.
