A look back at one year at GitLab
Thoughts after a year on the GitLab Support team.
🌊 Hello, world!
My name is Brie Carranza. I am passionate about cats, sunflowers, emoji, OSINT, GraphQL, cybersecurity, making cool websites and DevOps tools. I love experimenting with new technologies and reading infosec writeups. I love asking (and answering) the question "...but can I do that in a CI pipeline?".
One of the things that makes me tick is explaining technology and helping people understand how to make a solution work for them. I enjoy being a leader and mentor and working to build other leaders. Our jobs are not easy but I care about working together effectively to make work a little bit easier.
You can learn more about me in my README, on LinkedIn or in these videos:
- 🎥 Interview with GitLab Support Engineer Brie Carranza (2021)
- 🎥 Talk: Troubleshooting like Batman (2022)
- 🎥 Bruno Freitas Interviews Brie Carranza | GitLab Support (2023)
- 🎥 Brie Carranza Interviews Manuel Grabowski | GitLab Support (2023)
- 🎥 ✨ Our Paths to Staff Support Engineer | GitLab Support (2024)
Generated by Midjourney with the prompt: highly computerized clouds connected by network cables, lights flashing in the clouds, error messages in the sky
Here are a few of the more personal blog posts I have written...
I hope you enjoy these.
A Staff (Support) Engineer's Path
A collection of notes and reflections after reading and discussing The Staff Engineer's Path.
🔭 2023 in review
🪞 Reflections on my goals and accomplishments for the year.
How I became a Staff Support Engineer.
🗺 A timeline of my path to Staff Support Engineer, a list of things I'm glad I did and a few tips for folks considering a similar journey.
A few things I've made, around the Internet:
🐱 HTTP Response Status Cats!
These cute cat pictures generated by Midjourney are a cute way to remind yourself what each HTTP status code means.
⌨️ awesome-kinesis
This is one of the most popular repositories I have curated. It's an awesome list of projects, resources and references for Kinesis keyboard enthusiasts.
🌻 HELIANTHUS
HELIANTHUS is a collection of photos I've taken of sunflowers that I have grown.
🥣 Pastebin Bisque
I wrote a Python script that downloads all of a user's public Pastebin pastes. This solved a small problem I had and gave me a real opportunity to experiment with BeautifulSoup4.