A conversation with Osvaldo about his experience, the current IT job market, and his expectations of it all. Compiled, written & answered by Osvaldo.

Intro

Hello, recruiter, hiring manager or technical person! Thank you for stopping by and for your interest in my profile.

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Getting to know a candidate can be a tough thing, I've been on the other side myself too many times. Candidates get anxious, nervous, or, the resume makes no sense to the position they are applying for... all of these can lead to a non-productive "get to know each other" meeting.

With the above in mind, I created this space as if I were interviewing myself for a technical role where each section contains 5 questions or less, and where the goal is to explain my technical & managerial experience as well as professional interests in less than 5 mins.

Overall Experience

I've been in the IT industry for +10 years in multiple industries such as gaming, healthcare, enterprise, banking, and consulting, which have led me to work in different countries and with dozens of engineering teams. These experiences led me to understand and learn different aspects of each job and industry's needs. Interestingly enough, in the end everyone seeks the same outcome: a product, yet the ways to do it, how you plan it, and the people you build it with differ quite a bit.

What's your development experience?

I started in the industry as a software engineer and made my way building web apps (SPAs & PWAs) and MVC architectures, transitioning to microservices and globally available and serverless architectures. Since the start of my career, I’ve dwelled more on backend, and later on, I got into DevOps practices and culture. Nowadays and I am a huge fan of serverless and I am interested in concepts and practices for Observability and Chaos Engineering.

What's your managerial experience like?

I´ve been coding for >10 years but 9 months into my first job I was promoted to a Team Lead position. Since then, my jobs have been on&off working on the management side. I like both sides of the equation:

• I enjoy tackling technical problems as well as coming up with a new architecture that solves multiple issues. Not to mention, since the start of my career I've worked on engineering projects that handle millions of data entries, thus I became accustomed rather quickly to the term "scalability".
• On the management side, I take personal pride when teams are pushed forward and accomplish harder tasks, establish their own high performing culture, and grow in their technical skills.