Kathleen Vignos

I lead Twitter's Infrastructure Automation Group in Platform Engineering. TEAMS Cloud Acceleration (enabling workloads and storage on GCP and AWS, infrastructure as code) Fleet Health (automated failure detection and remediation) Core Infrastructure Services SRE (Puppet, LDAP, Kerberos, DNS) Core Infrastructure Provisioning Automation (machine metadata, hardware lifecycle management) Kernel and Operating Systems (kernel and OS performance and upgrades) LARGE INITIATIVES Bare metal host management automation and modernization Kubernetes cluster management Reliability: Scalability (adding capacity through datacenter and cloud expansion) Reliability: Safety and Resilience (failure domain analysis, infrastructure as code) ORGANIZATIONAL PROGRAMS I founded Twitter's engineering manager community and run Twitter's internal Engineering Manager Development (EMD) program, and I drive our engineering hiring process improvements. AWARDS Twitter Hack Week 2021 Top 3 People's Choice Winner CONFERENCES AND ACTIVITIES Google Cloud OnAir: Getting Started with Google Cloud Certifications, December 2020 https://cloudonair.withgoogle.com/events/getting-started-certifications LeadDev: Strategies for creating an environment of continuous learning, December 2020 https://leaddev.com/culture-engagement-motivation/strategies-creating-environment-continuous-learning LeadDev: I'm newly remote under corona virus, AMA panel, April 2020 https://leaddev.com/personal-development/im-newly-remote-under-corona-virus-ama Calibrate Engineering Management Conference, SF, September 2019 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9emor4-ewU #SheInspiresMe Panel, March 2019 https://twitter.com/TwitterWomen/status/1115762327280689152?s=20

Managing the Effective Tools teams in Twitter Effectiveness. TEAMS Ad Review (Scala, web tool, machine learning integration) International Engineering (Ruby/rails, web tool, open source libraries) Corporate Productivity (Ruby/rails, web tools) Performance Feedback (Ruby/rails, web tool in React) Agent Tools (Ruby/rails, Scala, web tool in React) LEADERSHIP Twitter University course instructor for: Hiring for Engineers, Hiring for Managers On leadership strategy teams for: Leadership Training for Individual Contributors, Engineering Mentorship Program, Twitter Hiring, Engineering Manager Development CONFERENCES AND ACTIVITIES O'Reilly Velocity Conference, June 2018, "How to Keep Up Your Tech Skills (without annoying your teams)" North Bay Python, December 2017: “5 Leadership Skills Every Engineer Needs” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcO-U1leTho (26:29) Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, October 2017: Twitter EmpowHERment Panel, “Twitter Localization” Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, October 2017: Twitter Tech Women Talks, “Building a Twitter Bot with the Twitter API“ O'Reilly Fluent Conference, June 2017: Managing Engineering Teams through Constant Change https://youtu.be/ci9CUWwgQOc (43:53) O'Reilly Velocity Conference, June 2017: Managing Engineering Teams through Constant Change Hack Week 2016 participant (programming in React) GUEST INTERVIEWEE Tech Essentials Design Course for the University of Southern California. IN THE PRESS Interviewed for WIRED article on sexism in Silicon Valley, June 2017: https://www.wired.com/video/2017/06/women-engineers-on-the-rampant-sexism-of-silicon-valley/

Led Twitter's Data Deletion and Retention strategy and workstream across all engineering pillars (Platform, Revenue, and Consumer). Drove the development of technical design documents with engineers across all major data storage systems. Drove high impact for GDPR across Twitter.

Responsible for all software development and technical operations at WIRED including wired.com, all WIRED apps and mobile properties Built, mentored, and recruited a high performing team of developers Made hands-on contributions to development Improved wired.com site availability, stability, and performance Managed first site redesign since 2007, launched March 2015 RECENT PROJECTS WIRED Ad Free implementation (ecommerce integration, data API integration) Automated performance reporting app (consuming SpeedCurve API data) Slackbot automations for build efficiency Apple News, Facebook Instant Articles, and Google AMP implementations Various WP REST API projects FIRST PLACE: 2016 Hackathon Winning Team Conde Nast "Built While Flying" Hackathon, 22 teams, 200 participants Project: Automated SEO Validator for Publishing CONFERENCES O'Reilly Fluent Conference Ignite Speaker, 2016 https://youtu.be/mYT4NF_Dsjg (5:07) Day of Rest, WP REST API (London, UK) Speaker, 2016 https://youtu.be/X7HlPn2hzWg (37:37) WordPress VIP Developer's Conference Speaker, 2015 Fastly Altitude Conference Speaker, 2015 https://youtu.be/xaG_z6N9O9M (32:53) ARTICLES http://www.wired.com/author/kvignos/ http://www.wired.com/2015/11/programmers-lets-earn-the-right-to-be-called-engineers/ http://www.wired.com/2015/10/why-wired-com-migrated-and-why-your-site-should-too/ http://www.wired.com/2015/03/wired-dot-com-from-the-devs/ PODCASTS Interviewed on WIRED Webmonkey Podcast: http://www.wired.com/2015/08/webmonkey-podcast-ilooklikeanengineer/ IN THE PRESS Women Who Code Profile: https://www.womenwhocode.com/blog/79 Post Status Article: https://poststatus.com/resources/use-wordpress-rest-api/ OTHER Started "Manager Meetups" - cross functional management support group Leader of the WIRED Lunchtime Running Club Mentored several people outside the technology department

Doubled the size of the WIRED Tech Team by hiring great new talent Managing a team of 7 developers Organized first ever WIRED Tech Team Developer Off Site WordPress web development Responsive site redesign project Development environment using Vagrant, Composer, Node, Grunt, Jenkins, Codeship Integration with Omniture, Chartbeat, Tumblr, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Disqus, Polar, Outbrain Tech Stack: node.js, express, backbone.js, mongo, PHP, Javascript, sass/CSS, WordPress WordPress Conference Speaker - WordCamp San Francisco, 2014 http://2014.sf.wordcamp.org/speakers/ http://wordpress.tv/2014/11/01/kathleen-vignos-migrating-17-wp-blogs-on-wired-com-into-one-wordpress-install/

WordPress web development Google Doubleclick for Publishers (DFP/GPT) ads support Built a new Javascript/jQuery photo gallery WordPress migration project: 17 blogs into one install Mobile site support with Mobify Site redesign project Development environment using Vagrant, Composer, Node, Grunt Integration with Omniture, Chartbeat, Tumblr, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn Tech Stack: node.js, express, backbone.js, mongo, PHP, Javascript, sass/CSS, WordPress JSConf 2014 Attendee - Amelia Island, Florida

WordPress web development, both self-hosted install and on WordPress.com WordPress custom widgets and plugins Support for serving various kinds of ads - banners, box ads, Dart ads, companion ads Javascript modules Version control: Mercurial, Subversion, Git Agile Product Development MAMP development environment Integration with Omniture, Chartbeat, Tumblr, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn 2013 WordPress VIP Developer's Workshop Attendee

Web Development Consulting services, including: - Content Management System (CMS) implementation and customization - Plugin development - Website design and integrated eCommerce - Interactive web database applications - Online event registration and payment - Macromedia Flash editing and website creation - Search Engine Optimization - Blogging software implementation - Languages: PHP, ASP, Perl, SQL, Javascript, HTML, CSS, Unix shell, C - Databases: MySQL, Oracle, MS SQL Server, MS Access, DB2 - Platforms: Unix, Windows, MVS/Mainframe - CMS: WordPress, Drupal, Joomla!, Movable Type, Blogger, Tumblr - Social Networking: Facebook Pages, Facebook APIs, Twitter, Twitter APIs, LinkedIn, LinkedIn APIs, Blogger, Tumblr - Other: Macromedia Flash Clients: Forell/Elsesser, Engineers FTF Engineering Structural Engineers Association of Northern California (SEAONC) Structural Engineers Association of California (SEAOC) LawAnytime, LawVantage

Founded successful online retail store with thousands of customers Sourced over 700 wholesale products Built custom eCommerce website in PHP with interactive CSS Built custom warehouse integration for product distribution Achieved #1 natural search rank on Google for highly competitive keywords Managed customer service, procurement and development team Developed advertising and PR campaigns Developed custom customer service and procurement applications

Taught online SQL for Business course

- Helped maintain and build out the product demo for a Java/JSP Web application with an underlying Oracle database. - Developed HTML/Javascript product demos to demonstrate future product releases. - Developed a field training CD-ROM using Macromedia Flash. - Co-managed the implementation and ongoing maintenance of Ventaso, a sales and marketing knowledge management application. - Worked as the interface between sales engineers and internal product development engineers to answer technical product questions and develop technical sales tools. - Wrote technical white papers to explain product to non-technical customers.

Project Manager, PeopleSoft Order Management (OM) Implementation - Managed a team of 8 consultants on a $2M project at an Internet Service Provider. - Created the project plan and managed the project scope and team workload for a project to implement new telesales product web pages. - Led the team to a successful Go-Live and managed subsequent 24/7 production support. - Helped define business processes and resource requirements for client’s ongoing enhancements to their order management system. Integration Team Lead, PeopleSoft OM Implementation - Designed the database and application architecture for inbound and outbound integration to PeopleSoft OM, involving the following third party applications: Baan Sales Force Automation, Vitria Middleware, Kenan Billing, Oracle Provisioning, Vantive Customer Service, and a homegrown web ordering system. - Coded several SQR (a SQL-based language) programs for integration in an Oracle/Unix environment. PeopleSoft Technical Consulting, Global Support Services - Helped customers troubleshoot problems with SQR, UNIX configurations, PeopleSoft Process Scheduler, and printing. - Researched cases using Vantive Customer Support. PeopleSoft Technical Consulting, PeopleSoft Tree Manager and Projects Implementations - Worked in MVS/DB2 environment (including using SPUFI and modifying JCL). - Designed and coded SQR programs. - Made improvements to interface processing.

Oracle Performance Testing Analyst, PeopleSoft Billing Implementation - Performance tested PeopleSoft Billing processes for a major staffing services client. - Analyzed SQL trace files, added indexes and resized database elements on the Oracle database platform. Technical Architecture Analyst – Report Distribution and Batch Execution, PeopleSoft HRMS and Financials Implementation - Coded UNIX Bourne shell scripts. - Coded SQR reports. - Designed the SQR report distribution architecture for scheduled and adhoc reports. - Scheduled jobs with dependencies using AutoSys from Platinum Technologies. Lead Programming Analyst, Custom Telecommunications Billing System - Analyzed business requirements. - Coded in COBOL in a batch MVS environment with DB2 and IMS databases. - Debugged COBOL modules using Xpeditor. - Performed unit testing, string testing, and system testing. - Performed bug fixes and provided front-line 24/7 production support.

- Performed seismic evaluation of structures, building retrofits, new design, and construction support. - Managed the construction retrofit projects for several bay area hospital parking garages. - Coded and modeled structures in three dimensions. - Analyzed computer modeling data and performed testing. - Wrote proposals, fee worksheets and budgets. - Created technical reports. - Supervised a team of drafters.