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Carmen Reyes
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Principal Engineer specializing in platform engineering and developer experience. Carmen has spent 15 years building the tools and systems that help other developers do their best work.
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Articles by Carmen Reyes
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I Finally Got the Staff Promotion After 5 Years. It Had Nothing to Do with Better Code.
After 5 years stuck at senior, I realized the gap to staff had nothing to do with code quality. It's about which problems you choose to solve.
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I Spent 3 Years Defending Jira. Here's Why We Finally Left.
After 3 years defending Jira, we tested Linear, Notion, GitHub Projects, and Shortcut with our 12-person team. One finally made tickets disappear into the background.