Alex Jones

@axjns.dev

AWS principal engineer https://sympozium.ai

When I interview, I claim one of my superpowers is being credible. I thought about that a lot recently. Doing what you say you'll do, having a track record of what you've done. These are really baseline expectations, but need to flaunt them more these days..

One of the things I like about my work is the “okay so what?” Asked around every corner. Bullshit is quickly found, and you’re forced to come prepared with data

Learning a new language isn't a way to increase my leverage. Learning how to speak to a new cohort or community totally is. Those were some fundamental truths I learnt quite recently that have helped me enormously at AWS.

I wrote something in cursor, and the time I spent wasn't where I anticipated. It got the idea of the codebase and what I was trying to do. What it didn't grok was integration/unit tests failing shouldn't be replaced by wholesale code edits, they exist that way for a reason.