liliana kastilio
staff software engineer · london, uk currently travelling in south east asia
platform/ — internal platform
I've spent the last 4 years in Platform working on implementing SRE best practices at scale, managing huge databases, looking after legacy monolithic services with extremely high throughout in traffic and code.
tooling/ — developer experience
Looking after the legacy monolith and the largest databases comes with it's own challenges that can be managed with paved paths and common tooling to ensure best practices are spread evenly across the organisation. Researching, designing and implement common tools to improve platform reliability, developer productivity and a smoother developer experience have been a primary focus over the last 4 years.
product-engineering/ — product engineering
As an early stage engineer my first years were spent shaping the product based on customer needs, I led teams responsible for developing the Open Source product at Snyk and the CI/CD integration (CLI, GitHub Checks, Bitbucket etc) scaling these flows during rapid growth. Understanding customer needs and building a product users love is a passion of mine, so much so I moved to Technical Services for several years to work closely with the largest customers to understand their needs and pain points and help shape the platform to support them.
leadership/ — technical leadership
Working with over 400 engineers and getting alignment and agreement on process, projects and direction. Mentoring engineers, helping team members grow in their career and detecting company wide problems before they become a catastrophe are all part of my day to day.