Hey!
Backend software, mostly in Go, is what I write. The best part is when the volume turns out to be ten times what anyone planned for.
My day job is the rules side of a real-time alerting product used by around 20,000 agencies and more than a million people worldwide. Agencies write the rules, events come in, and the system decides whether someone needs to know. The whole thing is mine to look after: the data model, the evaluation, and the screens our own operators use.
Beyond the rules, I've led other projects at Axon: evidence bundles that hold up in court, alert dismissals that sync across every device, and a run of smaller ones to make the product nicer to use.
A typical day
Design takes up a good part of my time: working through the problem and turning it into a plan the rest of the team can build from. Then there are reviews, time with our product manager on what we build next, and keeping the engineers building it unblocked. Code still gets plenty of my time, just rarely in one sitting.
Outside of that
Cooking is back on the menu (the pizzas have come out well), and so is running (less well). Lots of returning to do at the moment.
Music is always on, and there's more returning here too: Backstreet Boys and Jodeci are both back in heavy rotation. I've seen Asake live, in a tux.
Travel takes me as far as I can get. Given the choice, a new country beats going back to an old one.
Most of my reading is newsletters and Hacker News, picking out what's worth knowing. Books are next, and I'm on the hunt for good ones, fiction and non-fiction. Recommendations welcome.
That's the person. The work, with the numbers attached, is on the CV.