I help oversee the technical direction of Vida, with a focus on the backend. As an individual contributor, I'm also able to spend time solving specific problems, including:
• creating our local development environment for microservices (see docker-local-dev project)
• establishing and running our technical review process. We cover everything from KPIs and product requirements, to system architecture, to API specifications.
• helping as we continue to upgrade, migrate, and simplify our technical systems
• making significant contributions to our backend Django and Flask applications
• helping identify, root cause, and fix performance bottlenecks
Some of the key technologies I work with on a daily basis include: Python, Django, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, GCP, BigQuery, OpenAPI, Datadog, and PostgreSQL.
(Note: Our career ladder was consolidated in 2021, and Sr. Staff SWE remapped to Staff SWE)