If you’re looking for an experienced developer/sysadmin, here’s what you should know about me (besides what’s on my resumé) and what I seek in a job.

Me

I typically enjoy operations (aka “devops”) and developer-productivity roles, with an emphasis on:

  • improving developer quality of life
  • streamlining dev or ops workflows via automation
  • generating system and service observability
  • paying down technical debt

The above can take many forms, including (but not limited to):

  • developer tools
  • build and/or deployment pipelines
  • metrics, graphing and dashboards
  • log/event streams
  • secrets management
  • configuration management and containerization
  • documentation

Work ethic

As a detail-oriented person with plentiful experience maintaining legacy systems, I have a deep understanding of how much future pain and frustration one can cause by cutting corners. Because of this, I tend to choose tradeoffs which favor sustainability over speed.

That doesn’t mean I’m incapable of meeting deadlines or making tough judgement calls, however – just that my estimates are more likely to bake in things like documentation, tests, or automation.

It does mean I always make codebases a little better after I interact with them, as a side effect.



You

The following should describe you, the company:

  • Remote-friendly for US (NJ/NY) based employees – remote employees don’t feel like second-class citizens and are given the support they need to succeed, collaborate, and grow.
  • You demonstrably believe in periodically paying down technical debt instead of rushing ahead to the next feature milestone every time.
  • A low-stress oncall rotation. I’m happy to expand on my thoughts here, but some short examples of what this means can include:
    • Non-ops engineers participate in rotation for the services that they write, alongside any dedicated ops folks.
    • Staff aren’t responsible for their non-oncall duties during a pager shift.
    • Pager-holders feel empowered to fix noisy pages shortly after the offending shift.
  • You have a positive, non-exclusionary culture which values empathy.
    • Ideally, you’ll have a commitment to hiring and empowering disadvantaged or marginalized groups.
    • You lack toxic or “techbro” employees.

Let’s talk!

If nothing above sounds like a deal-breaker, please contact me, preferably via email at jeff [at] bitprophet [dot] org. Thanks!