On Friday, September 8th, I celebrated my 8 year Netflix work anniversary. I consider myself to be extremely fortunate, lucky, and privileged getting to say Netflix is my employer. Reflecting back on my experiences so far, I wanted to share more broadly, the Serendipity (shameless plug for my company!) that have guided me thus far […]
Well, not really the first dollar, more like the first 12. And ninety-nine cents. On Tuesday, August 15 at 12:30PM PST, I received notification that I had my first customer sign up. I’ll spare you the excited hyperbole (I definitely did a happy dance in my chair), here’s a screenshot: Today, I’d like to share […]
I had the opportunity to share a “The Moth” style story at work during an inclusion pop-up. It came at a good time as I’ve mulled over the next steps for launching my app in the coming weeks and reconciling the next season(s) of my career. Enjoy the video – I’ll have some thoughts in […]
That “feedback” the other coach gave you? That happens day-in and day-out at companies. Peers do it to you. Leaders do it to you. You’ve probably done it to someone else and it probably came from a good place. It usually does. Sometimes it doesn’t. This whole experience is aptly termed, “micro-aggression”. Also known as, […]
A bad day for you is considered a catastrophic failure for us. You’re probably asking what’s catastrophic failure (apart from being fun to say)? What’s a bad day? Why do we see this as a catastrophic failure? Why the hell, do I (we) think we become the best? Catastrophic failure is this overwhelming sense that […]
This essay is broken up into three parts and I will publish each piece separately over the next few days: I hope you find the writing enlightening, educational, and empathetic. Weeks ago, a close friend and I were enjoying beers, catching up. I lamented several stories about my professional journey, sharing ups and downs in […]
Hey gang, It’s been a while – after launching in September, the holidays came swiftly. That time was not wasted! During that period, I performed outreach to customers, asking for help smoke-testing the platform. After approximately 2.5 weeks, I collected a few pieces of feedback that confirmed feature functionality and validated my engineering and launch […]
6 months after my initial deadline – I have finally shipped my first version of the application to Production! In other projects, I have a bad habit of shipping code directly to master/main branches or messing around in a “production” environment directly. This time around, I realized that I need to have some discipline and […]
Sorry for being incommunicado – there’s been a lot of change at Netflix and I really haven’t had the bandwidth to write since April. My app is nearly ready for deployment to production! I spent the better part of last week getting the user sign-up flow implemented and debugged. I had to adjust my implementation […]
Hi all, Lately, I’ve been getting things like payment and pricing set up. In terms of technical work, I’ve had to build a pricing / payment page (done) and test the Stripe integration (in progress). The launch list never seems to shrink either: Bug bashing Deployment infrastructure Beta / UAT testing Deploy infrastructure At this […]