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Senior software engineer at Vendr

• Pronouns: she/her
• Location: Indiana, US (Eastern time)
• Best working hours: 9AM-12PM, 1PM-4PM
• Technologies

• I want to make things better in tangible, measurable, predictable ways. The best way to motivate me is to show or tell me how it will help someone or something.
• My favorite category of work is medium-to-large tasks that require some creativity, some research, and force me to learn something. I like to be able to sit down and work on a task for hours without stopping to troubleshoot tools or platforms. I also like complex debugging; tracking down and fixing something that seems like it should be impossible is very satisfying to me.
• I have no problem changing direction, even drastically, when there’s a good reason for it. I am frustrated by constant pivots if and only if they don’t seem well-reasoned. I consciously avoid the sunk cost fallacy and am content to throw away even a large body of work if there’s a better way to do things.
• I have a scope creep refactor problem; I like to leave things better than I found them, and I can get too wrapped up in fixing existing problems that delay the real task at hand. This also happens when I see just one more thing that I could do so quickly. One thing leads to another and soon enough, I’ve spent a whole day fixing one more thing.
• My time estimation is absolute trash. It’s my worst technical skill by far. I say “hope to have that done today” a ton, and I mean it when I say it, but I often am not thinking of the whole picture. I’m working on getting better but it’s slow going. If you need an accurate estimate, tell me and I’ll make sure I’m considering the whole picture.

• Personality type: INTJ
• Zodiac sign: Sagittarius
• Belief in personality types & zodiac signs: none
• Dietary restrictions: allergic to cashews, don't like shellfish
• IntelliJ vs VsCode: IntelliJ always
• Favorite TV: Stargate SG-1, M*A*S*H
• Favorite movie: Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
• Favorite book: Hornblower and the Hotspur
• Favorite music: The Fratellis, The Longest Johns
• Worst movie ever seen: The Lost Treasure of the Grand Canyon
• What I do outside of work: ride horses, sew clothing, hand-spin yarn, leatherwork, video games on casual mode (Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Stardew Valley, Planet Zoo)