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Walk me through your resume? Tell me about yourself.

  • [SCHOOL] I actually went to school to study Actuarial Science.
  • My parent wanted me to be an actuary.
  • While in college,I took several CS classes and really enjoyed it.
  • When I graduated I had an acturial and computer science degree.
  • WHen it came to pick a job, I chose to be a software engineer
  • My parents used think I fix computers & printers all day.
  • Years later, my dad called me and asked me if I knew what an algorithm is

  • I guess he figured out that I write computer code

  • [SOFTWARE-ENGINEER]I joined Pearson as a backend Software Engineer. At that time, we were still in the data center.

  • Later, I heard that we were moving to the cloud. I had a lot of ideas about how we should build our infrastructure.
  • Rather than working as a developer, I wanted to build a better infrastructure.

  • and I was interested learning linux and networking

  • [DEV-OPS] In the DevOPs role, I moved our application from the data center to AWS.

  • Once, at a conference and I learned about microservices and containers.
  • I decided to experiment by taking a product that I manage and move it into a container.
  • I revamped the pipeline and rebuild the build job to include functional testing with docker-compose

  • The infrastructure that I built became a model for other products at Pearson.

  • [SRE] A few years later, I was at another conference and I learned about distributed systems.

  • I proposed to my manager that we should sit with the developer, understand their workflow and build the infrastructure with the development team.
  • Right about that time, Pearson transitioned me to a SRE role. 
  • Right now I am team lead, I do mixture of coding and leading. And a lot of teaching and mentoring. I set long term goals and make sure that my team is on the right path