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Silvia Botros

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Corey Quinn

Baron Schwartz

Matty Stratton

Ben Halpern

Sean O'Connor

Dana Jones

Tanya Janca

Emily Freeman

Kolton Andrus

Lisa Smith

Gene Kim

Kelsey Hightower

Greg Parker

Nadyne Richmond

Jay Gordon

OwlTail

This week I chat with Silvia Botros also known as the @dbsmasher from Twitter.  I learn about her experiences on-call for databases, motherhood and an affinity for breaking things.  An awesome conversation with an incredible person.Silvia Botros is a Sr Principal Engineer at Twilio. She focuses on ways to break databases but is also talented at finding bugs in all your software. Whether she helped build it or not. When she is not helping Twilio Sendgrid send billions of emails a day, she is busy training her little replicas on also breaking computers and trolling her friends on Twitter. https://twitter.com/dbsmasherhttps://twillio.comhttps://blog.dbsmasher.com

This week I chat with Silvia Botros also known as the @dbsmasher from Twitter. I learn about her experiences on-call for databases, motherhood and an affinity for breaking things. An awesome conversation with an incredible person. Silvia Botros is a Sr Principal Engineer at Twilio. She focuses on ways to break databases but is also talented at finding bugs in all your software. Whether she helped build it or not. When she is not helping Twilio Sendgrid send billions of emails a day, she is busy training her little replicas on also breaking computers and trolling her friends on Twitter. <a href="https://twitter.com/dbsmasher" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/dbsmasher</a> <a href="https://twillio.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twillio.com</a> <a href="https://blog.dbsmasher.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://blog.dbsmasher.com</a>

Episode 44 - Silvia Botros - Twilio

In this episode, rachel, Kendall, and Silvia talk about:  How nobody ever reads documentation beforehand The sad state of education What terrible handwriting might offer us in terms of improving our communication habits rachel's inability to remember the term "career ladder"  The importance of identifying and codifying hierarchies as your flat org begins to grow Discovering the Individual Contributor leadership track What leadership means for the Principal Engineer and how this varies at scale The value of providing historical context for your colleagues Dudes on Twitter, an eternal plague etc Becoming comfortable about delegation as a method of self-preservation Making the choice to remain an Individual Contributor ...and realizing you're a leader anyway Wielding authority for good, not judgement of errors Transferring incident response skills to one's home life Why leadership does not equal management  You can find Silvia on twitter as @dbsmasher You can find Silvia's recent blog post here: https://blog.dbsmasher.com/2019/01/28/on-being-a-principal-engineer.html Special thanks to Mel Stanley for our theme music &lt;3 

In this episode, rachel, Kendall, and Silvia talk about: <ul> <li>How nobody ever reads documentation beforehand</li> <li>The sad state of education</li> <li>What terrible handwriting might offer us in terms of improving our communication habits</li> <li>rachel's inability to remember the term "career ladder" </li> <li>The importance of identifying and codifying hierarchies as your flat org begins to grow</li> <li>Discovering the Individual Contributor leadership track</li> <li>What leadership means for the Principal Engineer and how this varies at scale</li> <li>The value of providing historical context for your colleagues</li> <li>Dudes on Twitter, an eternal plague etc</li> <li>Becoming comfortable about delegation as a method of self-preservation</li> <li>Making the choice to remain an Individual Contributor</li> <li>...and realizing you're a leader anyway</li> <li>Wielding authority for good, not judgement of errors</li> <li>Transferring incident response skills to one's home life</li> <li>Why leadership does not equal management</li> </ul> You can find Silvia on twitter as @dbsmasher You can find Silvia's recent blog post here: <a href="https://blog.dbsmasher.com/2019/01/28/on-being-a-principal-engineer.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://blog.dbsmasher.com/2019/01/28/on-being-a-principal-engineer.html</a> Special thanks to Mel Stanley for our theme music &lt;3

Episode 21: Silvia Botros (Twilio-Sendgrid)

Episode #001 - Databases and DevOps with Silvia Botros