June 2021 - Present
- Engineering Manager
Who am I
Just Vicky. No, it's not short for Victoria.
I'm an engineering manager with over 10 years of software engineering experience within a range of different industries.
I believe in looking at problems holistically, especially in regards to the commercial side.
I'm an advocate for testing to ensure great system availability and reliability to provide end users with the best experience.
Overseeing the processes outside of coding, I believe understanding business value and trade-offs will improve the applications you develop.
Timeline
What have I been up to?
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November 2020 - June 2021
- Software Engineer
June 2019 - October 2020
- Software Development Engineer
February 2018 - June 2019
- Software Engineer
August 2016 - January 2018
- Software Developer
July 2016
Graduated From University of York
- MEng Computer Science with Artificial Intelligence (with a year in industry)
- First Class Honours
June 2015 - September 2015
- Associate Software Developer
August 2014
- Summer Intern
July 2013 - July 2014
- Support Project Engineer
October 2011
Began Studies at University of York
- MEng Computer Science with Artificial Intelligence (with a year in industry)
Skills
A brief overview on some of the technical stuff I've picked up over the years.
Programming languages
Back end for many full stack web applications.
Node.js/JavaScript (ES6/ES7), Python, Go, Ruby, C#, Java
Libraries/Frameworks
Making things look pretty. Cross-browser compatibility is a pain.
React, Typescript, GraphQL, AngularJS, Pug/Jade, next.js, Webpack, HTML/CSS, Sass
Testing
Make sure things do not break. Includes unit testing, UI testing, performance testing.
Cypress, TestCafe, Protractor, Nightwatch, Selenium, BrowserStack
CMS
Updating content should not require engineering effort.
Contentful, Prismic
Infrastructure
You kinda need to know what happens after you commit your code.
CircleCI, Drone, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, GoCD
Data
From retrieving and storing data to building data pipelines.
BigQuery, Airflow, Looker, SQL, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Oracle
Cloud Computing
DevOps infrastructure as code, serverless computing or CDNs and alarms/monitoring.
AWS, Google Cloud Platform
Observability
What metrics and logging should you measure and observe?
Prometheus, Grafana, ElasticSearch, Kibana
Find out more
Read my blog posts.
Grafana Labs Hackathon 2021: The story behind Grafana Stories™
15 October 2021
Panel: Careers in open source
15 June 2021
Meet the Grafana Labs team: Software engineer Vicky Lee, who builds Enterprise plugins for Grafana
19 March 2021
Pride month: Recognising the power of being heard
01 June 2020
How to Hire and Retain the Best
20 March 2019
SEO Market Trends
13 March 2019
Marketing for Startups
06 March 2019
How to Cope with Competition
27 February 2019
What Happens After Product Meets Market?
20 February 2019
Improving our End-to-End Testing Culture with TestCafe
16 January 2019
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