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| Hey 👋 I'm Nik, a software developer from Melbourne, Australia. | ||
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| ## General info | ||
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| - 🧔 Pronouns: he/him | ||
| - 🌐 Website and blog: https://www.skouf.com | ||
| - 📄 Resume: https://resume.skouf.com | ||
| - 💼 Working at: https://seek.com.au | ||
| - 🍳 Favourite food: Pickles! | ||
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| ## What I'm working on | ||
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| I'm currently working as a senior staff engineer within the Engineering Platforms group at SEEK. | ||
| We're working on a new continuous delivery platform to make developers at SEEK more efficient, and | ||
| to make our services more secure, more resilient and cheaper. | ||
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| I'm spending less time writing code lately, and a lot more time acting as a technical product manager | ||
| for our platform. | ||
| It's an interesting new challenge, I'm learning a lot about what it means to be a product manager, and | ||
| I'm really enjoying it! | ||
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| ## How I like to work | ||
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| More and more I'm trying to embrace fully remote, asynchronous ways of working. | ||
| I like writing things down beacause it allows me to communicate clearly and thoughtfully. | ||
| I find it easier to express myself concisely and clearly in writing, but I also feel that writing is more durable | ||
| and easier to iterate on than verbal communication. | ||
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| Earlier in my career I hated any form of planning. | ||
| Now planning is a lot of what I do. | ||
| I still like to keep things lightweight, but I'm beginning to understand how too little planning and communication | ||
| can actually be far far worse than too much planning and communication. | ||
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| I often have strong opinions, but they're loosley held. | ||
| I believe that being able to quickly change your mind in the face of new information is a virtue, and I tend to change | ||
| direction very quickly when this happens. | ||
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| ### Types of documents I tend to write | ||
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| I write a lot at work. | ||
| Here's a brief guide to some of the things I've been writing a lot of lately. | ||
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| You'll see me writing 'proposals' or 'strategies' when I have ideas about changes or improvements I'd like to make to | ||
| systems and processes. | ||
| The more controversial or wide-ranging the changes, the more I feel the need to write a 'strategy' that articulates | ||
| the multitude of problems and the common 'policies' that we can apply to end up with a set of actions. | ||
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| You'll see me writing 'logs' of things (not generally what I end up calling them, but that's kind of what they are) | ||
| when I do something that I feel is noteworthy or otherwise might be worth documenting for the future. | ||
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| I also tend to write down my ideas for how to run meetings or rituals before I've actually run them. | ||
| This helps me get all of my ideas down somewhere so that I don't forget them, and so that I can make sure that they're | ||
| clearly articulated ahead of time. | ||
| I'll then often iterate on these by having a 'notes' section at the bottom of the page with notes from how this meeting or | ||
| ritual went, with suggestions for how to improve the next time around. | ||
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| ## What I've worked on in the past | ||
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| In the past I've done a lot of Kubernetes wrangling, and I still try to keep up to date with the latest and greatest. | ||
| I've done a bunch of teaching and mentoring of junior developers, and try to get involved with programs that let me | ||
| share knowledge and help people understand new concepts wherever I can. | ||
| I also studied mathematics in university, specializing in numerical methods for differential equations. | ||
| I'm pretty rusty, but I do enjoy a math or logic problem. | ||
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| ## Hobbies | ||
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| An ever growing list... | ||
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| Food and drink is a big hobby, both eating and cooking. | ||
| Some of my adventures are on my blog, but there's a lot more to be discussed. | ||
| A short list of stuff I've done deep dives into: | ||
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| - Miso and shoyu (soy sauce) making | ||
| - Cocktails | ||
| - Carbonation | ||
| - Coffee | ||
| - Bread and milling your own flour | ||
| - Lacto fermentation | ||
| - Cured fish products (tuna bacon) | ||
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| I never really was a sports guy, but now I try and watch Vancouver Canucks games. | ||
| Maybe it just took a sport completely divorced from my home country and culture to get me interested? | ||
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| My 3D printing is pretty rusty, but it's something I've tinkered with in the past and hope to again. | ||
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| I like taking photos, and they usually go straight from my camera to [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/nskoufis/). | ||
| This has been fantastic cure for my chronic inability to get around to editing RAWs. | ||
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| I have a cute black and white tuxedo cat named Sofia who I love very much ❤️ |
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| <li>🧔 Pronouns: he/him</li> | ||
| <li>🌐 Website and blog: <a href="https://www.skouf.com">https://www.skouf.com</a></li> | ||
| <li>📄 Resume: <a href="https://resume.skouf.com">https://resume.skouf.com</a></li> | ||
| <li>💼 Working at: <a href="https://seek.com.au">https://seek.com.au</a></li> | ||
| <li>🍳 Favourite food: Pickles!</li> | ||
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| <h2 id="what-im-working-on">What I’m working on</h2> | ||
| <p>I’m currently working as a senior staff engineer within the Engineering Platforms group at SEEK. | ||
| We’re working on a new continuous delivery platform to make developers at SEEK more efficient, and | ||
| to make our services more secure, more resilient and cheaper.</p> | ||
| <p>I’m spending less time writing code lately, and a lot more time acting as a technical product manager | ||
| for our platform. | ||
| It’s an interesting new challenge, I’m learning a lot about what it means to be a product manager, and | ||
| I’m really enjoying it!</p> | ||
| <h2 id="how-i-like-to-work">How I like to work</h2> | ||
| <p>More and more I’m trying to embrace fully remote, asynchronous ways of working. | ||
| I like writing things down beacause it allows me to communicate clearly and thoughtfully. | ||
| I find it easier to express myself concisely and clearly in writing, but I also feel that writing is more durable | ||
| and easier to iterate on than verbal communication.</p> | ||
| <p>Earlier in my career I hated any form of planning. | ||
| Now planning is a lot of what I do. | ||
| I still like to keep things lightweight, but I’m beginning to understand how too little planning and communication | ||
| can actually be far far worse than too much planning and communication.</p> | ||
| <p>I often have strong opinions, but they’re loosley held. | ||
| I believe that being able to quickly change your mind in the face of new information is a virtue, and I tend to change | ||
| direction very quickly when this happens.</p> | ||
| <h3 id="types-of-documents-i-tend-to-write">Types of documents I tend to write</h3> | ||
| <p>I write a lot at work. | ||
| Here’s a brief guide to some of the things I’ve been writing a lot of lately.</p> | ||
| <p>You’ll see me writing ‘proposals’ or ‘strategies’ when I have ideas about changes or improvements I’d like to make to | ||
| systems and processes. | ||
| The more controversial or wide-ranging the changes, the more I feel the need to write a ‘strategy’ that articulates | ||
| the multitude of problems and the common ‘policies’ that we can apply to end up with a set of actions.</p> | ||
| <p>You’ll see me writing ’logs’ of things (not generally what I end up calling them, but that’s kind of what they are) | ||
| when I do something that I feel is noteworthy or otherwise might be worth documenting for the future.</p> | ||
| <p>I also tend to write down my ideas for how to run meetings or rituals before I’ve actually run them. | ||
| This helps me get all of my ideas down somewhere so that I don’t forget them, and so that I can make sure that they’re | ||
| clearly articulated ahead of time. | ||
| I’ll then often iterate on these by having a ’notes’ section at the bottom of the page with notes from how this meeting or | ||
| ritual went, with suggestions for how to improve the next time around.</p> | ||
| <h2 id="what-ive-worked-on-in-the-past">What I’ve worked on in the past</h2> | ||
| <p>In the past I’ve done a lot of Kubernetes wrangling, and I still try to keep up to date with the latest and greatest. | ||
| I’ve done a bunch of teaching and mentoring of junior developers, and try to get involved with programs that let me | ||
| share knowledge and help people understand new concepts wherever I can. | ||
| I also studied mathematics in university, specializing in numerical methods for differential equations. | ||
| I’m pretty rusty, but I do enjoy a math or logic problem.</p> | ||
| <h2 id="hobbies">Hobbies</h2> | ||
| <p>An ever growing list…</p> | ||
| <p>Food and drink is a big hobby, both eating and cooking. | ||
| Some of my adventures are on my blog, but there’s a lot more to be discussed. | ||
| A short list of stuff I’ve done deep dives into:</p> | ||
| <ul> | ||
| <li>Miso and shoyu (soy sauce) making</li> | ||
| <li>Cocktails</li> | ||
| <li>Carbonation</li> | ||
| <li>Coffee</li> | ||
| <li>Bread and milling your own flour</li> | ||
| <li>Lacto fermentation</li> | ||
| <li>Cured fish products (tuna bacon)</li> | ||
| </ul> | ||
| <p>I never really was a sports guy, but now I try and watch Vancouver Canucks games. | ||
| Maybe it just took a sport completely divorced from my home country and culture to get me interested?</p> | ||
| <p>My 3D printing is pretty rusty, but it’s something I’ve tinkered with in the past and hope to again.</p> | ||
| <p>I like taking photos, and they usually go straight from my camera to <a href="https://www.instagram.com/nskoufis/">Instagram</a>. | ||
| This has been fantastic cure for my chronic inability to get around to editing RAWs.</p> | ||
| <p>I have a cute black and white tuxedo cat named Sofia who I love very much ❤️</p> | ||
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