alright I need a better description of "so what di...
# wayfolk
z
alright I need a better description of "so what did you do at wayfair" because I just had someone repeat back to me "so, basically you just watch these clusters all day?"
t
Let's be honest, YAML wrangler, 1st level support for help channel, coffee drinker.
r
Flagger deleter
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Senior Staff YAML Engineer
a
“I did YAML at web scale”
j
those clusters aren’t going to watch themselves, zach
a serious answer: platform enablement, solving on demand deploy and release challenges for 600+ product teams across 5 different timezones
n
"If you stare at the clusters long enough, the clusters stare back"
z
> for 600+ product teams across 5 different timezones Jordan I used these exact words!
a
At that’s when the real work begins, they stare back and you start whispering to them, using voice interface
j
providing leverage to teams so they can accelerate their MTTM for feature development, enhancements and bug fixes. provide a scalable, performant, highly available, secure platform for applications used by internal and external customers and stakeholders
n
Managing large kubernetes clusters is also a nice sell maybe
j
is that something to be proud of 😂
t
Bigger is better -- right...
j
we scaled GKE…. vertically and horizontally onemilliondollars
z
yah! so I said things like that! And the response I got was "uhhh ok so you make deploy pipelines for devs"
this person was not in software 😄
t
They were probably looking a sheet with the keywords they needed to hear...
z
nah this was the business partner of a fellow west point grad that I knew from the academy; my buddy just said "hey, find this guy a job!"
t
"What did you do at Wayfair"
a
I turn YAML and coffee into GCP bills.