Silvia Botros is an experienced software architect with a focus on datastore scaling. She has helped teams scale their data infrastructure in known names such as Box, Twilio and Sendgrid. She helped deploy and maintain various MySQL datastores that support sending trillions of emails, drive MySQL designs from inception to production, help team improve their resilience, improve their learning from incidents. Silvia is now a consulting architect helping companies assess their current data strategy and helping them make plans for scale
Tackling the build vs buy conundrum
There is no ‘one size fits all’ approach to the “Build vs Buy'' decision, but there are ways to make it clearer, and easier.
Being a principal engineer. The world is your oyster.
Silvia Botros talks about how to navigate the many facets of the role of a principal engineer.
What is senior IC? Flavours of technical leadership
Although the Senior IC ladder is starting to become more defined why aren’t more people talking about this shift, and what does leadership actually look like as Senior IC?
Best practice for seamless product integration
How to achieve successful integration within existing infrastructure
The road to senior individual contributor
What is leadership in an individual contributor role and how does it differ from being a senior engineer?
The reality of being a Principal Engineer
Think it's just a more-senior IC role? Think again.
