[sethammons]

I've not looked recently, but I think it will be hard to find someone who can afford me. I have some experience that I would think would be valuable. Over the last decade, I went from a startup with 30 people with everyone having the same root user up through an IPO followed by an acquisition. I've worked on the core backend systems that grew in revenue from single digit millions to over a couple hundred million dollars, that scaled from millions of daily requests to billions, from 10s of thousands of users to millions, and, all the while, keeping up high availability while rewriting the underlying systems from stateful VMs to stateless containers orchestrated by k8s. I'm a devops champion focusing balancing the needs of the business with engineering velocity and stability. I've seen and led so much in this space around scaling, availability, testability, quality, metrics, alerting, and building up and growing teams as the org changes. However, judging by what I read on HN, I'm going to get stuck on some leet code thing :). That's partly why I am giving management a proper go and am not operating as a principal engineer - I kind of hope any management/director interviews are more related to the experience I bring to the table.