Bill

Career

• 32% // Solutions Engineering
• 60% // Systems Architecture
• 5% // Wireless Spectrum Research
• 3% // Embedded Sofware Development

Person

I enjoy helping people take the next step

📷 Photographer ・ 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦 Father ・ 🇨🇳 Mandarin Learner

🤓 Self-Hoster ・ 👨‍💻 Go Developer ・ 📝 Letter Writer

🏠 London ・ 🗺️ China

Contact

👨‍💻 bill.dev
🗓️ meet.bill.dev

What is Development?

• Meetings
• Estimation
• Justification
• Email
• Reporting
• Approvals
• Planning

Development is Iterative

Idea to Production

Expectations

• Design and development of complex, highly available, distributed, cloud-based solutions, and maintain its high level of quality software
• Owning the full software development lifecycle of the product from requirements and design through development and testing till production and maintenance
• Develop and maintain software that delivers on the team’s objectives primarily in typescript, python and terraform, and, infrequently, in Ruby or Golang

• Providing top class service to our customers
• Communicate with consumers of the team’s software and gather requirements and facilitate adoption of your solutions

• Growing the talent by providing technical guidance and expertise

• Contributing to a large scale platform and product by providing ideas
• Thinking out of the box for problem solving and troubleshooting
• Write technical design documents and hold reviews

• Deploy microservices to Kubernetes using Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) systems

• Having space and time for empowering and growing your innovation ideas

• Work with the team and product management to review and refine delivery requirements
• Participate in all team scrum ceremonies

Full Stack

What does it feel like?

“Sometimes software engineering just feels like a neverending marathon of impossible obstacles and frustrations and mystery puzzle hunts until you tease out a solution or get that nudge of help from a fellow traveler and BAM it feels like you’ve done magic!”

– Linda Peng

“Too often, we find ourselves crammed into a framework that views software creation not as a journey of discovery, but as an unimaginative widget factory.”

– Beiyang Liu

• If someone else has to do it, it’s a blocker.
• If I have to do it, it’s a distraction.
• Self serve all the things.
• If only the organisation would get out of my way.
• This process is pointless.
• What issue? It’s just a minor ‘blip’.

Productivity

Metrics

• Lines of Code
• Number of Commits
• Code Coverage

Developer Hertz

Dora

Measure both throughput and stability

• Change lead time
• Deployment frequency
• Change fail percentage
• Failed deployment recovery time

Tools

“Kubernetes is a portable, extensible, open source platform for managing containerized workloads and services”

Kubernetes Resources

• Workloads
• Service
• Config & Storage
• Authentication, Authorization & Policy
• Custom
• Mutating / Validating Webhooks

Kubernetes Developer Experience

The Org

Efficiency

🆚

Agility

Goals

• Independent
• Autonomous
• Empowered
• Self-Sufficient
• Value Centric
• Engaged

Behaviours

Incentives

• Work with new / interesting technology
• To become senior
• To build a CV
• To learn
• To ship great products
• To earn more money

Who do devs work for?

• The business
• A vendor
• A partner
• An ISV (Independent Software Provider)
• Themselves

Who do devs work for?

• ISV dev team contracted time and materials
• ISV dev team contracted fixed price / fixed outcome
• Individual contractor maintaining key system
• In-house dev team, passionate about their product

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