I am a seasoned quality engineer and proven manager.As a manager, I'm interested in building a team culture of honesty, high performance, and just the right amount of process to keep us quick and agile without falling into chaos. I like to confront difficult problems directly and get them resolved.As a quality engineer, I like to be involved from the initial product definition, working closely with developers through design, testing, and deployment. I like building and using automation infrastructure, and tackling performance testing. I bring my leadership skills to bear by mentoring junior team members, and by constantly looking for ways to tweak our overall development process for maximum efficiency with minimum overhead.As a technologist, I'm particularly interested in many aspects of distributed systems and SaaS products, like scalability and fault tolerance.