What's a production incident that taught you the most? 👇

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🔥 Caused a major incident: My SQS queue refactor took down password reset emails. One revert later, we're stable. Lesson learned: canary releases > big bang changes. The team's quick response was incredible. The incident was actually resolved by one of our Advocates @afarmer@bsky.social 💪🏼

🏗️ Infrastructure cleanup continues: After last week's refactor, we're slowly removing the unnecessary complexity from our stack. Less moving parts = easier maintenance. Though one refactor didn't go as planned because I...

✨ Small wins that matter: Fixed a bug in the collapsible sidebar, added a loading skeleton for the app menu.

💭 Monthly reflections: Had my monthly check-in with my manager. These sessions always help me zoom out and see the bigger picture beyond the code.

🧪 Prepared a new experiment launching Monday: Built new a upgrade modal and repositioned CTAs across one area of the product. Excited to see how new users respond to this next week!

Deeply grateful for Buffer's flexibility that allows me to work outside regular hours when life happens. It's this kind of environment that enables us to do our best work while being present for what matters most.

Beyond code, I also spent time giving peer feedback to teammates: this is an important part of building a strong engineering culture at Buffer 🤗

🚀 Collaborative QA: Worked with the team to thoroughly test a new feature that's launching next week—excited to see it in our users' hands!

✨ Smarter scheduling: Enhanced our Best Time to Post algorithm to avoiding conflicts with already scheduled content, giving users better recommendations.

🔒 Security & code quality: Addressed the last bits of a security vulnerability in our dependencies, refined error handling, and removed redundant code paths—making our platform more secure, stable, and easier to maintain. ur customers.

🏗️ Infrastructure modernization: Led a major cleanup effort removing legacy webworkers across our platform, reducing technical debt and simplifying our architecture for better maintainability.

If you care about conversion optimization, growth metrics, and building experiences that genuinely serve users, we'd love to hear from you! buffer.com/journey/7d5a...

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You'll lead the development of core growth features — referral systems, conversion flows, free tools, and data-driven experiments that drive sustainable user acquisition and retention.

Be right back while I add more illustrations for the upcoming streaks 👨🏼‍💻