Career Goals

At the moment, I am focusing my search on site reliability engineering but more specifically in the cultural and organizational aspects of reliability by design. This includes incident management and incident response, blameless culture, tooling for developers to give them guardrails for safe development, and running reliability testing exercises with developers to find vulnerabilities that can be remedied by circuit breakers, load shedding, fast failover, and sustainable service ownership. This career target has more leadership, workshops, and policy coordination with developers and less code and infrastructure.

I am not open to temporary or contract jobs.

Industry Restrictions

I am not open to work for for-profit finance/fintech, for-profit healthcare, insurance, or any industry whose goal is to consolidate wealth. I will not work with crypto or NFT firms.

Preferred industries are internet services related and include SAAS products, products that make life easier for engineers and other workers, gaming, enterprise tools, and not-for-profit health or finance.

Values

Great engineering comes from minds that are not hindered by stress, distraction, fear, or lack of belonging. To that end, I will advocate for equality and inclusiveness in any workplace. This includes gender equality, respect for any gender and orientation identity, support for all racial backgrounds, support for all disabilities, and recognition that all voices from “fresh intern” to “40 years in tech” have meaningful contributions to the team. Mental healthcare is healthcare and should be treated as such.  

No team will succeed without the needs of the individuals being met, and no leader should put an OKR goal above a contributor’s health or sense of belonging. 

Compensation

Motivation and dedication come from belonging. A salary that allows life without excessive financial anxiety is the basic requirement, but belonging has two more paths. The first would be a job whose product changes humankind for the better, supports people who needs support, and doesn’t serve to make wealthy people even wealthier. The second would be a position that earns equity and a meaningful enough position to allow that equity to grow based on individual effort. An ideal position would have both.