Maggiepint.com Website Review

mostly ja*ascript, and date and time, sometimes dogs search i occasionally give a conference talk. i’m not a professional devrel person, and the whole community doesn’t know who i am – so at the beginning of these talks, i usually put a “who i am” slide. this is the content of the slide from my library design patterns talk: i suppose that to some this slide sounds ‘impressive’ or whatnot – the big tech company, well-known open source project, and standards committee. but i feel as though i should delete everything there, and just put this: i put things like ‘engineering manager in azure sre’ on my slides because the community responds to those words, finds them interesting, gives them respect. maybe they think i work on ‘cool high scale distributed systems’ – and i do. understand though, at the end of the day, my team makes line of business software to help quickly mitigate incidents in the cloud. we’re enterprise software now, ‘enterprise software developer’ is a term that is met with disdain by some people. people hesitate to use it in job descriptions due to fear it will drive away candidates. writing ‘enterprise software’ is just plain ‘uncool’. people want to work on ‘high scale distributed systems’ or ‘languages and frameworks’ or at ‘startups’. we venerate people who work in these spaces, and follow them by the thousands on twitter. enterprise software is seen by many as what people do when they aren’t very good or interesting. and yet, i love it. i love understanding business requirements and translating them into code. i love the people i get to interact with and the complexities i get to unwind. i find it challenging. i can see that it’s a skill that i am specialized in – not the work of a. what about the whole thing with the standards committee? isn’t that languages and frameworks? sometimes i joke and say that i’m the ‘local idiot’ at tc39. there’s a grain of truth to that one – i’m surrounded by people