Visting Twitter NYC and attending #SRECon
Classic NY slices at Grimaldi’s with @TwitterSRE pic.twitter.com/KvLJXyRNQu
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) March 26, 2019
Fun team dinner with my NYC crew from core infra services and infra mgmt services. Good food at Hao Noodle but best part was everyone sharing their tech background/history. These people have been around the tech block! @TwitterSRE @TwitterEng pic.twitter.com/WpmCoWkPaI
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) March 28, 2019
Escape Rooms
🤖 The IMS Team escaped the Future Tech Escape Room! @TwitterEng https://t.co/iBWXkYgx2O pic.twitter.com/m0Jio261zp
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) March 16, 2019
Working with GCP as one of our cloud vendors
Playing with “Automat” at @googlecloud space which used machine learning to dispense a prize based on answers to a series of questions. I got a workout towel! pic.twitter.com/dJfogOeMng
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) March 8, 2019
Director’s offsite in Colorado
After a long day of sessions, some outdoor time snowshoeing at Devil’s Thumb with many fine @Twitter directors. #honeybadgerjedicouncil pic.twitter.com/8nmEW6MkPt
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) April 18, 2019
WomEM dinners
I love forward to these women EM dinners so much! It’s a privilege to work with you all @TwitterEng @joyousx @lientm @l_if @asulkina @madeyemaryann @lessachu pic.twitter.com/lT1ltsehPC
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) May 23, 2019
TwitterForGood
Distributed lasagna making systems @TwitterEng #TwitterForGood @newdoorsf pic.twitter.com/GHhgDaiMMp
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) May 17, 2019
Watch @TwitterForGood's broadcast: Tweeps & staff from @newdoorsf preparing lasagna for homeless youth #TwitterForG… https://t.co/nNTJUp4idB
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) May 17, 2019
Director offsite at the Zen center
It’s a privilege to spend quality time with this group of @TwitterEng leaders this week. Each one is smart, humble, and full of potential, and I’m learning from them every day. 🙏 pic.twitter.com/TBF51pfsAu
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) June 6, 2019
Deprecating and deleting old software
Yassss!!! We did our part @concon @looftus @giladbu @catia3045 @sambhana @AlexPopken! Someone post a pic of our team peacock (I’m a little far from my desk at the moment). Thanks for finishing the job @KL7 🐦 💀
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) June 27, 2019
Surviving major outages
Seems like a good time for a refresher. pic.twitter.com/HDB66ppwY8
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) July 12, 2019
Supporting eng apprentices
So excited and proud that Twitter is helping open this career path to more types of people. #LoveWhereYouWork https://t.co/EZJfqoWwcf
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) July 10, 2019
Lots of hiring
I’m hiring! Come help Twitter on our journey to hybrid cloud. This role will support both foundational services on bare metal as well as cloud partnerships and solutions. https://t.co/iCvbrAsxwI
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) August 21, 2019
Attending intern presentations and supporting interns
These eng interns knocked my socks off in final presos today. @shubhaswamyy integrated, tested, & analyzed POP latency data across cloud vendors, & @sisiphozinja worked to improve internal curl request security. These two are on fire. 🔥 Props to traffic team for hosting. pic.twitter.com/gueLkD98U5
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) August 13, 2019
It’s important to recognize the @TwitterEng work that goes into both supporting @terns and providing robust, relevant, high impact projects. Bravo @medha_banana @JessicaPAU16 @WillFeatherYao @dschonbe @morfca @Todd_Segal https://t.co/gvxARO7Wml
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) August 13, 2019
Women EM dinner – see us growing!
Another great @womeng dinner! This group of engineering leaders feels like it’s tripled since I started. @TwitterEng #changetheratio pic.twitter.com/dRB1z9oQTz
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) August 29, 2019
Studying for Google Cloud Architect Certification
Been awhile since I had to study for an exam… the past year of immersion therapy should help @GCPcloud pic.twitter.com/rtfa3YVSSj
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) August 10, 2019
At least the study tools are better now. @quizlet to the rescue! pic.twitter.com/7KqrBtWXWL
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) August 10, 2019
Celebrating Twitterversaries
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) August 1, 2019
Speaking at conferences
A few of my beautiful fellow speakers, who also happen to be a powerful group of engineering leaders. This speaker line up is 🔥🔥🔥@lara_hogan @ericastanley @NidhiGuptaSF Cathy Chen #calibratesf pic.twitter.com/C94rQcbbZg
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) September 27, 2019
Thanks @vrushalivc! https://t.co/EoCjjssU8F
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) September 27, 2019
Supporting remote hiring and remote work
Hey remotes! We've got a hiring event Oct 24-26 in Atlanta for Sr. SWEs, Systems. Successful candidates will eventually be placed at Twitter SF, Boulder, NYC, Atlanta, Boston/Cambridge, OR work remotely (for those who qualify). https://t.co/Vrei5S5xSR
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) October 20, 2019
+1 to @Twitter improving support for remote workers. I worked from home for 10 years building websites while my kids were young. These days the coffee, food, people, fast VPN all bring me in, but the key is in having flexibility to choose what suits your life. #WhyIWorkFromHome https://t.co/TqLo1FStNg
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) October 30, 2019
The number one question I get asked lately. Yep, it’s true, people can WFH forever. https://t.co/hpZQt2rAs7
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) July 13, 2021
Sponsoring a Tech Woman from Morocco (Rachida – @KhtiraR)
Welcome to our 2019 @TechWomen from Morocco, Kazakhstan, Nigeria, Egypt, Pakistan!! Breakfast bonus: a greeting from our CFO @nedsegal pic.twitter.com/vn34d7LB3e
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) October 7, 2019
Bonding with my emerging leader from Morocco 🇲🇦 , @KhtiraR, over the support we received from our fathers to follow our dreams 🤩 @TechWomen pic.twitter.com/zoHYgOvmyL
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) October 29, 2019
Engineering manager training followed by dinner
Building a strong EM community during this dinner with a fresh batch of class participants for @TwitterEng engineering manager training #EMD pic.twitter.com/JtTnITOYOX
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) October 18, 2019
My first four woman reporting chain!
New boss @carriefernandez starts today. I go from a 3-woman reporting chain to a 4-woman reporting chain.
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) October 7, 2019
Engineer > EM > Director > Sr Dir
Proud to say there are several 3- and 4-women chains across @TwitterEng. Anyone else been part of one? Which companies? #changetheratio
Visiting Twitter offices (NY)
Thanks for a great visit @TwitterNYC – you always make me feel welcome! pic.twitter.com/gFlQTvzqsX
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) October 25, 2019
C-level lattes
Our leaders are making everyone espresso drinks this morning… big line has formed… #TweepTour @twitter pic.twitter.com/TK9OirFaGh
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) October 10, 2019
Celebrating launches with distributed cake
Distributed cake to celebrate delivering GCP project create – a collaboration between our @TwitterEng Public Cloud and Kite teams. SF, Boulder, Seattle, Florida all have cake! 🍰 A+ @chadwickh #distributedoffice #oneteam pic.twitter.com/uN3AdjgVfS
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) November 6, 2019
Deprecating more software, and celebrating with deprecation cake
Oh sure, you can have your launch cake, but today we are having deprecation* cake, which I would argue deserves extra credit. Deprecation* tastes delicious. 🎂 😋
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) November 26, 2019
(*By deprecation I mean complete shutdown and removal, but it just sounds better.) Thx @vdeshp2! pic.twitter.com/ysssuzUtx0
Visiting Twitter offices (Seattle)
All in all, a good day at @TwitterSeattle. Dinner with our excellent Seattle infrastructure automation crew (with a couple SF mates snuck in), a beautiful sunset view from the cafeteria/commons, and now a quiet moment by the fire. I ❤️ SEA. pic.twitter.com/DSurw9yEWp
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) November 14, 2019
EMD dinner
Another set of top notch participants building their peer network over dinner as part of @TwitterEng engineering manager training #EMD pic.twitter.com/zo1bnGiFe4
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) November 22, 2019
SRE Meetup
Another full house for #remeetup @TwitterSRE ! https://t.co/5nrSxGK1P1 pic.twitter.com/Uj36QLBt0D
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) November 21, 2019
Allies wielding their power for good
Yep. Many of my male colleagues are the ones to suggest I drive for this reason. Your support is awesome @mikecvet! https://t.co/M4gclaovXb
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) November 22, 2019
Tweep appreciation tweets
One thing I say that’s special about Twitter is that if newcomers have a passion they can contribute right away (like Luna). It was really something special about you, Jan, and you brought Twitter culture along with you. You’ve been an amazing mentor. I’ll miss you. pic.twitter.com/SV4y93wFFR
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) November 6, 2019
Experimenting with APIs at home
My son decided he wanted to use Google Cloud Vision API for a school project. It’s interesting to see how he tries to figure it out on his own. Just explained the difference between running a python script locally in terminal, and running in Cloud Shell… pic.twitter.com/BJC49nXLap
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) December 30, 2019
Not surprisingly, his anonymous script’s request was rejected, and so now I’m teaching API basics… rate limiting, OAuth, service accounts, billing… pic.twitter.com/UmjMQYW25i
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) December 30, 2019
Went for a walk, came back, got our credentials.json set in environment variables, and, Voila! now Google Vision API returns the text from an image. pic.twitter.com/HsYb5WHuQ0
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) December 31, 2019
Today, he says, “Mom, I’m getting permission denied on pip install.”
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) December 31, 2019
Me: “Oh yeah, you’re gonna need sudo – let’s get your user added to sudoers.”
Son: “It worked! Successfully installed – thanks Mom, it’s nice you know all this stuff!”
Six years at Twitter, 2016-2022 – Part 3
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