As an engineering manager at Zendesk (NYSE:ZEN, 3,500+ employees) in San Francisco, CA, I work with my teams of 10+ engineers on Custom Objects, part of the new Sunshine CRM Platform.
Custom Objects is a scalable database as a service for Zendesk customers, built on Kubernetes, Go, Scala, AWS Aurora MySQL and Elasticsearch. My teams (including a tech lead and a manager reporting to me) are in charge of the features development, and operationalization and infrastructure of the service, with the support of our product manager.
Back in 2000 I learned PHP, created personal and commercial websites and been involved in several projects (creating IRC network communities, non profits for web-hosting).
I discovered Ruby on Rails in 2009 and was the first intern and then employee at Nimble Apps (Paris, France), doing Rails and Javascript (jQuery).