#OneTeam happiness
I think @stevesalevan broke the Karaoke bar #micdrop #OneTeam pic.twitter.com/kUmqDv5jZ1
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) January 16, 2020
Just a few of our fabulous @TwitterWomen engineering managers/directors #OneTeam pic.twitter.com/5mZy17Fbrc
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) January 16, 2020
Team CRS! Excited for our EPDR breakout session today – come see us at 5:30pm #OneTeam pic.twitter.com/Jpe6Dxaays
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) January 15, 2020
Can’t stop won’t stop #oneteam pic.twitter.com/qR9T4a34Z7
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) January 17, 2020
Working with globally distributed teams
1) Globally distributed teams require more async communication (often written). 2) Humans need belonging which is best developed face-to-face. 3) We need longer blocks of meeting-free work time. Solving communication at work is like trying to solve the CAP theorem. #OneTeam #EPDR pic.twitter.com/Vi0NjeKy7S
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) January 15, 2020
Amazing engineers
Found a bunch of my OGs… they might not report to me anymore but I’m forever invested in the future of these engineers! #OneTeam pic.twitter.com/UnnIOyzTdS
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) January 17, 2020
I give you the talented engineers of Infrastructure Automation @TwitterEng (well maybe half of us) #OneTeam #LoveWhoYouWorkWith pic.twitter.com/C092rySL56
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) January 16, 2020
TwitterForGood
I was so incredibly proud to be one of 4400 @Twitter employees who worked at 51 volunteer sites across @HoustonTX today. 1200 of us worked at the @HoustonFoodBank. Just 18 of us packed 15 TONS of fruits and veggies. #helpies #oneteam #twitterforgood #LoveWhereYouWork pic.twitter.com/3QpunSePtP
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) January 17, 2020
Helping send people to TED
1-1/2 years ago I was blown away by a talk by @photographerjon (as were all of my colleagues) and this tweet went a little viral. Tonight I finally got to meet him. And he did speak on the TED stage! 🎉 https://t.co/wxt7e3xWP4 pic.twitter.com/dinq9GLVGY
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) January 16, 2020
Crossing paths at multiple companies
Alumni of @WIRED at @Twitter: left to right, https://t.co/h5L7QzkkTc head of engineering, head of sales, head of editorial #OneTeam @amaiorana @evnhsn pic.twitter.com/sQjBGS2ZLr
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) January 15, 2020
Getting teased by our head of engineering
I’ve been given a new handle by @michaelmontano: “@kathkeen” – but unfortunately looks like that’s taken. I’ll accept the compliment (keen is good, right? Or maybe he was keen on that terrible cloud joke?) but will stick with @kathleencodes 😉 https://t.co/vvV09lXAcP
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) January 16, 2020
Blackbirds events
Kicking off #BlackHistoryMonth2020 with @Blackbirds. #LoveToSeeIt pic.twitter.com/Rhb4S7gzuU
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) February 5, 2020
Covid usage spike, reliability, and service continuity
We are working hard to keep the Tweets flowing for you. Here on this thread, we share some of the details on what it's been like for many of our engineering teams lately… https://t.co/1MSGNyNqOv
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) March 27, 2020
An update on our continuity strategy during COVID-19 https://t.co/v2xIiQon8D
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) March 27, 2020
Contributing to the Remote Work Guide
Amazing timely content: The @Holloway Guide to Remote Work. I contributed as a reviewer and can say this is the only guide you need for recruiting, managing, supporting, and just being a remote worker. 1/2 https://t.co/scXbPb79n1
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) March 19, 2020
Speaking at virtual conferences
Our #LeadDevLive panel recording has been posted! We discussed what it’s been like for us as engineers & managers to be “newly remote under coronavirus” @ale7714 @chralden @drincruz https://t.co/5fPc1UCCUy pic.twitter.com/PHg0kbjM90
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) April 9, 2020
“I’m newly remote under coronavirus, AMA” panel at #LeadDevLive https://t.co/MJOo3CnU4s pic.twitter.com/BZ2No4kIMk
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) April 9, 2020
Interviewed for Amazing Women in Tech series
Thanks for interviewing me, @quicola, and for asking good, hard questions to make me think! Remember I get to interview you at the end of the series, you promised… #lovewhoyouworkwith @TwitterEng https://t.co/DgagS1mY4l
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) April 10, 2020
Experimenting with remote/distributed team activities
Presentation Karaoke, aka Battle Decks, and #distributedtreats for engineering teams https://t.co/7sZ4wQTxBT #remotework pic.twitter.com/046LZoZ79Y
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) May 6, 2020
TwitterForGood
It was great to play "Are you smarter than a 4th/6th grader?" today with @DeMarillacSF and fellow Tweeps for #TwitterForGood day. It's been a long time since I thought about the names for the layers of the atmosphere! pic.twitter.com/ZVXbntba8R
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) May 8, 2020
Days off to protest
Thanks for the day off, @jack, so I could be one of 20k San Franciscans chanting #BlackLivesMatter https://t.co/MfLhHzBPen pic.twitter.com/Kw0doWXHnA
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) June 4, 2020
Learning how to be anti-racist
Proud and honored to have @DrIbram visit us @Twitter today. I’m learning so much from your book, e.g “racist” is something to apply to a behavior or idea and not to a person. Thank you for reminding us that anti-racism benefits all of us. https://t.co/dOYKbyLKHt
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) June 11, 2020
Supporting inclusive code language
Very proud of colleagues @kevino and @negroprogrammer taking on this work along with management support for more inclusive code language at @TwitterEng. Words matter. https://t.co/jhzHyTNd4C
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) July 2, 2020
Working through the apocalypse
Bizarre pic.twitter.com/LcVzgHZZlE
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) September 9, 2020
More hiring
We're hiring another engineering manager for our Cloud Acceleration team in Infrastructure Automation – apply here! https://t.co/HkUKauFHXu
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) October 14, 2020
Encouraging Google Cloud certification
Always be learning. I'll be chatting about this (and Google Cloud Certification) next Friday. Join me! https://t.co/vU9n2KHz1r pic.twitter.com/bwZOL9ol0F
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) December 4, 2020
As eng leaders, we should not just provide technical training –we should take it, too, to keep up with technical trends. I talk about my experience and the benefits of GCP Cloud Architect training in this article. https://t.co/uiHgRvxaZ4
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) February 5, 2021
Why I crashed my team’s GCP Cloud Architect Certification training (and you should, too) https://t.co/Qf4k7IcWFg
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) February 5, 2021
Sending folks team branded swag
Packing up swag for our Infrastructure Automation new hires! #welcometweeps pic.twitter.com/LFWGauZWXm
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) January 15, 2021
Sending work from home presents
Get your manager to send you a toasty electric blanket https://t.co/0tctj3uITs
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) January 21, 2021
Celebrating No Meeting Fridays
No meeting Fridays have been life giving and transformative. #LoveWhereYouWork
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) February 26, 2021
CentOS hyperscale SIG
Facebook and Twitter want to enable CentOS Stream for large scale deployments https://t.co/MSIlcYYoXg (shoutout to @jvreeland26 )
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) February 16, 2021
Winning Twitter hack week
Y’all… we WON!!! 😱 🏆 @Twitter #hackweek https://t.co/2snzOo01c7
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) March 13, 2021
Reducing interview bias
No riddles, no brainteasers, no trick questions, no no no. Interviews should be collaborative experiences that feel close to a working session with teammates talking about real, relevant problems and/or reflections on projects/experiences that prepared you for the role. https://t.co/OUZsghC7PB
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) April 30, 2021
Coming back to the office after the pandemic shutdowns
Feeling like I finished some kind of crazy marathon. 500 days away and I couldn’t be happier to be back! #LoveWhereYouWork pic.twitter.com/kn7wxUAdLV
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) July 12, 2021
Twitter office visits – Boulder
First in-person social lunch since the before-times, with awesome teammates in Boulder last week. Can’t wait to see more folks IRL! @saurabhd04 @chadwickh @aishbhavan @wickman pic.twitter.com/4fQuOHWSDp
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) October 19, 2021
Kubernetes Cluster API
Ah ok – trying to figure out the double-posting 😊. Hey everyone 👋 I’m Kathleen from @Twitter, my team is working on using K8s Cluster API for cluster management. Excited to see the news yesterday from CNCF: https://t.co/C4qVY3QvHm
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) October 7, 2021
SF Tweep Up – first in-person event after pandemic shutdowns
It’s all about the people. We need each other and we need to connect. So glad we had the chance to do that last night (though the time passed way too fast)! #LoveWhereYouWork https://t.co/CPrM5NGcUO
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) November 10, 2021
Festive decorations in the Commons
Good morning @Twitter pic.twitter.com/CSW68Bizyl
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) December 6, 2021
Women EM dinner
I’m grateful for this subset of the nearly 100 (!) women EMs @TwitterEng, gathering to celebrate 2021 with stories of success and growth and learning. 🥂 This is the future of tech 💫 pic.twitter.com/Tlx84nVAbz
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) December 17, 2021
Shoutout from Parag
Just got a notification from someone liking this tweet from deep in the timeline. Was fun to relive a bit of #OneTeam magic in this thread. This was from 2018 in SF but also we were just getting home from Houston this time 2 years ago. Can’t wait til we can do it again! https://t.co/lNTRVF7zqR
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) January 19, 2022
Working with talented engineers
You are the real deal, @BobbyD_FL – I feel so lucky that we crossed paths. Rooting for you in everything that comes next! ✌️ @_thetechhustle pic.twitter.com/eJHEzsZtfa
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) March 19, 2022
April and May 2022 were hard
I am living in a Harvard Business School case study.
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) May 7, 2022
Panel discussing Managing Through Uncertainty
Hey friends, I'll be sharing some thoughts about dealing with uncertainty (both as an individual and as a manager) in this upcoming panel on June 29. https://t.co/aT6U607bAN
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) June 16, 2022
BigQuery for HDFS datasets
How did Twitter set up a resource hierarchy to help enable the seamless adoption of BigQuery for HDFS datasets across Twitter? @saurabhd04 and @Efsie spill the tea below. @TwitterEng https://t.co/l9ACMv8mEN
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) June 13, 2022
Vintage video game tour team activity
Creative virtual team bonding activity: Atari vintage video game demonstration 🕹 @TwitterEng pic.twitter.com/nX1e8ZhpPP
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) June 30, 2022
Team lunch
I couldn’t be prouder of this whip-smart, geo-distributed, diverse engineering leadership team. @TwitterEng @javawithjiva @npbtracker @jayholler @tweethck @lavanya_kan & GDS pic.twitter.com/xEDcs3tiQG
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) June 3, 2022
Last day in the office
Last day in the @Twitter office vibes… tomorrow I officially “leave the nest.” Savoring the moment and the memories. So much to process, more thoughts tomorrow… #LoveWhereYouWorked pic.twitter.com/U5xMmbByV0
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) August 4, 2022
Farewell happy hour
In person time with some of my favorite Tweeps tonight at Zeitgeist 💕 pic.twitter.com/7OUMk0nEjY
— Kathleen Vignos (@kathleencodes) August 5, 2022
Kathleen Codes 