Principal Technical Support Engineer (L4) And Developer
San Francisco, California, Us
As a leader on the Flex Support team, I helped build our support team and trained them and our customers in all things relating to Twilio Flex. Initially hired to trailblaze development on the internal and public processes used by others to ramp up with Twilio’s new product, Flex. I was a lead product support engineer and handled customer support tickets. Our customers ranged from single developers to engineering teams for globally recognized companies and groups in the private and public sectors. The product became wildly popular with a growing customer base with a company that had more than 250,000 active accounts. Handling Flex tickets required a deep understanding of web development HTTPS, REST APIs, ReactJS, and cross-knowledge of Twilio's products which totaled about 20 at the time. My tickets tended to relate to CRM integrations, SSO or Messaging and Chat that had me constantly testing our REST APIs and tracking down message samples through the different networks and logging systems. Flex provides omni-channel communication with two prebuilt ReactJS web components. This made custom code a common factor that can be time-consuming to support. I approached this concern by building generalized code examples so to be reused with things like documentation or macros for other tickets. I gave ideas for leveraging machine learning with my support managers and helped to build public-facing tutorials and step-by-step instructionals with the docs team contributing to Twilio's exceptional self-service experience. Developers and engineers were the majority of our ticket owners requiring that I was up to date with current building practices and common CRMs with complex ones needing a screen sharing or call to guide configurations or give code assessments. In short I provided closure to customers through informed empathy and being their advocate through the stressful process of finding their solution.