# Xe Iaso

#### Full-stack Engineer

##### Ottawa, ON   [christine.website][homepage]

`Docker`, `Git`, `Go`, `Rust`, `C`, `Stenography`, `DevOps`, `Heroku`, `Continuous
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`

## Experience

### Tailscale - Software Designer &emsp; <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
- SQL integrations
- End-user facing blog content and customer support

### Lightspeed - Expert principal en fiabilité du site &emsp; <small>*2019 - 2020*</small>

(Senior Site Reliability Expert)

> [Lightspeed][lightspeedhq] is a provider of retail, ecommerce and
> point-of-sale solutions for small and medium scale businesses. 

#### Highlights

- Migration from cloud to cloud
- Work on the cloud platform initiative
- Crafting reliable infrastructure for clients of customers
- Creation of an internally consistent and extensible command line interface for
  internal tooling

### Heroku - Senior Software Engineer &emsp; <small>*2017 - 2019*</small>

> [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. 

#### Highlights

- [JVM Application Metrics](https://devcenter.heroku.com/changelog-items/1133)
- [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)

### Backplane.io - Software Engineer &emsp; <small>*2016 - 2016*</small>

> [Backplane](https://backplane.io) (now defunct) was an innovative reverse reverse proxy that
> helps administrators and startups simplify their web application routing.

#### Highlights

- Performance monitoring of production servers
- Continuous deployment and development in Go
- Learning a lot about HTTP/2 and load balancing

### Pure Storage - Member of Technical Staff &emsp; <small>*2016 - 2016*</small>

> Pure Storage is a Mountain View, California-based enterprise data flash storage
> company founded in 2009. It is traded on the NYSE (PSTG).

#### Highlights

- Code maintenance

### IMVU - Site Reliability Engineer &emsp; <small>*2015 - 2016*</small>

> 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.

#### Highlights

- Wrote up technical designs
- Implemented technical designs on an over 800 machine cluster
- Continuous learning of a lot of very powerful systems and improving upon them
  when it is needed 

### VTCSecure - Deis Consultant (contract) &emsp; <small>*2014 - 2015*</small>

> 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.

#### Highlights

- Started groundwork for a dynamically scalable infrastructure on a project for
  helping the blind see things 
- Developed a prototype of a new website for VTCSecure
- Education on best practices using Docker and CoreOS
- Learning Freeswitch

### Crowdflower - Deis Consultant (Contract) &emsp; <small>*2014 - 2014*</small>

> 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.

#### Highlights

- Research and development on scalable Linux deployments on AWS via CoreOS and
  Docker
- Development of in-house tools to speed instance creation
- Laid groundwork on the creation and use of better tools for managing large
  clusters of CoreOS and Fleet machines

### OpDemand - Software Engineering Intern &emsp; <small>*2014 - 2014*</small>

> 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.

#### Highlights

- Built new base image for Deis components
- Research and development on a new builder component

## Writing

> 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.

- [My Blog](https://christine.website/blog)
- [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/)

I have gotten to the front page of [Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com) several times. Here are a few of the comment threads:

- ["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)
- [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)

## 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.

[homepage]: https://christine.website
[twitter]: https://twitter.com/theprincessxena
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[heroku]: https://www.heroku.com
[lightspeedhq]: https://www.lightspeedhq.com
[tailscale]: https://tailscale.com/