I am an Israeli immigrant who spent most of their formative years in South Florida before heading to the University of Alabama where (fun fact) I graduated 1 credit short of a self-designed Cryptocurrency Minor.
In my career, I started off in the Civic/Gov Tech space as a Civic Digital Fellow and Pivotal Labs employee working with agencies like the Census Bureau, the Air Force, and the intelligence community.
I have moved into more and more technical domains in recent years (namely, OSS infrastructure). Most recently, I wrote the Knative Getting Started Guide, played a part in giving the Knative site a much needed facelift and helped manage VMware's investment in Knative as part of my work there.
🗣 I could talk your ear off about coffee, climbing, economics, history, cryptography, and interior design.
🌎 Timezone: EST (Brooklyn, NY)
🕐 Working Hours: Usually 8AM-5PM (sometimes I climb in the afternoons 🧗🏼 so I'll be on later in the evening 🌚)
📞 Things you should know about my communication style...:
- I try not to treat Slack like constant-communication and am always "inactive," this creates a barrier-to-entry for messages that I very much appreciate (so I can focus). This cuts both ways, if I message you, I am not expecting a response from you right away.
- For a longer discussion, I would prefer to spend 30 minutes jamming on Zoom/Google Docs to Slacking back and forth for an hour.
💬 I love receiving feedback, seriously! Please toss me any feedback (constructive or positive) anytime in any format.
- 💖 I feel a high degree of psychological safety and my enthusiasm 🤩 is met with enthusiasm 🤩
- 🚀 I am talking to end-users and shipping software on a regular basis
- 🧠 I have time and space to do "deep work" on product strategy and research
- 🤝 I am trusted by default and have the ability to place bets
- 🖼 I have a clear understanding of what the "big picture" end goal metric is and am given the opportunity to chart the path from there
- 🧑💻 ENGs are talking to me about ways we could be increasing velocity by addressing cruft
- 👨🏻🚒 I feel my team feels comfortable enough around me to roast me
- ✍️ My long-form writing ability, improving writing to reach thoughtful, effective conclusions to difficult problems with peers.
- 👥 My ability to delegate work and knowing when to let someone else take the reigns
- 🧮 Understanding when to use product data and learning to write effective SQL queries
- 🤠 I am trying to grow into a people manager, so any feedback related to 🦻 active listening or empathetic leadership would be great
PS: If we work together and you have a personal user manual, I'd love to read it!
PPS: If you've made it this far and want help creating your own, I'll volunteer to help you put it together