“People are exhausting. But you’re not people.”
A direct quote from my teammate during a dinner at a conference. We became very good friends after that trip.
Back in 2017 I joined Netflix and moved our family to San Jose. I joined the team that built Chaos Kong. We brought our failover time from ~45 mins to under 7 minutes. True to Netflix’s culture I received some of the best feedback in my career. I was empowered to take risks which I did and even failed a few times spectacularly. I built some of my most product focused tools and services of my career. Worked with some of the best engineers in the world.
I moved on from the infrastructure org to the productivity org and bootstrapped the Python Platform Team at Netflix. This was a second wind in my Netflix career. I got to build services, libraries and tools that made the lives of Pythonistas at Netflix better.
I’m leaving Netflix to go work for OpenAI. I can’t wait to start.