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# Xe Iaso
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#### Full-stack Engineer
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##### Ottawa, ON   [christine.website][homepage]
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`Docker` , `Git` , `Go` , `Rust` , `C` , `Stenography` , `DevOps` , `Heroku` , `Continuous
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Integration/Delivery`, `WebAssembly` , `Lua` , `Mindfulness` , `HTTP/2` , `Alpine
Linux`, `Ubuntu` , `Linux` , `GraphViz` , `Progressive Web Apps` , `yaml` , `SQL` ,
`Postgres` , `MySQL` , `SQLite` , `Ordained Minister` , `Dudeism` , `Tech Writing` ,
`Kubernetes` , `Command Line Apps`
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## Experience
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### Tailscale - Software Designer   <small>*2020 - present*</small>
> [Tailscale][tailscale] is a zero config VPN for building secure networks.
> Install on any device in minutes. Remote access from any network or physical
> location.
#### Highlights
- Go programming
- Nix and NixOS
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- SQL integrations
- End-user facing blog content and customer support
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### Lightspeed - Expert principal en fiabilité du site   <small>*2019 - 2020*</small>
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(Senior Site Reliability Expert)
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> [Lightspeed][lightspeedhq] is a provider of retail, ecommerce and
> point-of-sale solutions for small and medium scale businesses.
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#### Highlights
- Migration from cloud to cloud
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- Work on the cloud platform initiative
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- Crafting reliable infrastructure for clients of customers
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- Creation of an internally consistent and extensible command line interface for
internal tooling
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### Heroku - Senior Software Engineer   <small>*2017 - 2019*</small>
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> [Heroku][heroku] is a cloud Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) that created the term
> "platform as a service". Heroku currently supports several programming
> languages that are commonly used on the web. Heroku, one of the first cloud
> platforms, has been in development since June 2007, when it supported only the
> Ruby programming language, but now supports Java, Node.js, Scala, Clojure,
> Python, PHP, and Go.
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#### Highlights
- [JVM Application Metrics ](https://devcenter.heroku.com/changelog-items/1133 )
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- [Go Runtime Metrics
Agent](https://github.com/heroku/x/tree/master/runtime-metrics)
- Other backend fixes and improvements on [Threshold
Autoscaling](https://blog.heroku.com/heroku-autoscaling) and [Threshold
Alerting](https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/metrics#threshold-alerting)
- [How to Make a Progressive Web App From Your Existing
Website](https://blog.heroku.com/how-to-make-progressive-web-app)
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### Backplane.io - Software Engineer   <small>*2016 - 2016*</small>
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> [Backplane](https://backplane.io) (now defunct) was an innovative reverse reverse proxy that
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> helps administrators and startups simplify their web application routing.
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#### Highlights
- Performance monitoring of production servers
- Continuous deployment and development in Go
- Learning a lot about HTTP/2 and load balancing
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### Pure Storage - Member of Technical Staff   <small>*2016 - 2016*</small>
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> Pure Storage is a Mountain View, California-based enterprise data flash storage
> company founded in 2009. It is traded on the NYSE (PSTG).
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#### Highlights
- Code maintenance
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### IMVU - Site Reliability Engineer   <small>*2015 - 2016*</small>
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> IMVU, inc is a company whose mission is to help people find and communicate
> with eachother. Their main product is a 3D avatar-based chat client and its
> surrounding infrastructure allowing creators to make content for the avatars
> to wear.
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#### Highlights
- Wrote up technical designs
- Implemented technical designs on an over 800 machine cluster
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- Continuous learning of a lot of very powerful systems and improving upon them
when it is needed
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### VTCSecure - Deis Consultant (contract)   <small>*2014 - 2015*</small>
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> VTCSecure is a company dedicated to helping with custom and standard
> audio/video conferencing solutions. They specialize in helping the deaf and
> blind communicate over today's infrastructure without any trouble on their end.
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#### Highlights
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- Started groundwork for a dynamically scalable infrastructure on a project for
helping the blind see things
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- Developed a prototype of a new website for VTCSecure
- Education on best practices using Docker and CoreOS
- Learning Freeswitch
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### Crowdflower - Deis Consultant (Contract)   <small>*2014 - 2014*</small>
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> Crowdflower is a company that uses crowdsourcing to have its customers submit
> tasks to be done, similar to Amazon's Mechanical Turk. CrowdFlower has over 50
> labor channel partners, and its network has more than 5 million contributors
> worldwide.
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#### Highlights
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- Research and development on scalable Linux deployments on AWS via CoreOS and
Docker
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- Development of in-house tools to speed instance creation
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- Laid groundwork on the creation and use of better tools for managing large
clusters of CoreOS and Fleet machines
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### OpDemand - Software Engineering Intern   <small>*2014 - 2014*</small>
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> OpDemand is the company behind the open source project Deis, a distributed
> platform-as-a-service (PaaS) designed from the ground up to emulate Heroku but
> on privately owned servers.
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#### Highlights
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- Built new base image for Deis components
- Research and development on a new builder component
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## Writing
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> Articles listed below will be either personal or professional and do not
> reflect the views of any company or group I am affiliated with. The writing is
> my own, with the help of others to make things legible.
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- [My Blog ](https://christine.website/blog )
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- [NAS 101: An intro chat about Network Attached
Storage](https://tailscale.com/blog/nas-101/)
- [The Sisyphean Task Of DNS Client Config on
Linux](https://tailscale.com/blog/sisyphean-dns-client-linux/)
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I have gotten to the front page of [Hacker News ](https://news.ycombinator.com ) several times. Here are a few of the comment threads:
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- ["Open Source" is Broken ](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29522941 )
- [The Surreal Horror of PAM ](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29167560 )
- [Systemd: The Good Parts ](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27175960 )
- [I Implemented /dev/printerfact in
Rust](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26845355)
- [A Model for Identity in Software ](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25978511 )
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- [I Put Words on This Webpage so You Have to Listen to Me now ](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18577758 )
- [TempleOS: 1 - Installation ](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19961082 )
- [WebAssembly on the Server: How System Calls Work ](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20066204 )
- [Olin: Defining a New Primitive for Event-Driven Services ](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17896307 )
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## Ordination
I am an ordained minister with the [Church of the Latter-day Dude ](https://dudeism.com ). This allows me to officiate religious ceremonies in at least the United States. I would be honored if you were to choose me to officiate anything for any reason. Please [contact ](/contact ) me if you have any questions.
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[homepage]: https://christine.website
[twitter]: https://twitter.com/theprincessxena
[twit]: http://cdn-careers.sstatic.net/careers/Img/icon-twitter.png?v=b1bd58ad2034
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[heroku]: https://www.heroku.com
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[lightspeedhq]: https://www.lightspeedhq.com
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[tailscale]: https://tailscale.com/
