A tech lead's role involves leading projects like horizontal sharding and shaping the long-term vision. Prioritizing the right tasks, ensuring quality and design, and fostering the growth of team members are crucial responsibilities. Creating opportunities for team members to lead projects allows for the development of future leaders within the organization. By enabling individuals to take on responsibilities and either succeed or fail, the foundation for building the next generation of leaders is laid.
Sammy Steele is a Senior Staff Engineer at Figma, and the tech lead for their databases team. She previously worked at Dropbox, where she built out their petabyte-scale metadata storage and search systems.
Sammy recently published a blog called “How Figma’s databases team lived to tell the scale”. The blog went viral and made it to the top of Hacker News. We invited Sammy on the podcast to learn more, and she is our guest today.
Check out Figma Config at https://config.figma.com/.
Sean’s been an academic, startup founder, and Googler. He has published works covering a wide range of topics from information visualization to quantum computing. Currently, Sean is Head of Marketing and Developer Relations at Skyflow and host of the podcast Partially Redacted, a podcast about privacy and security engineering. You can connect with Sean on Twitter @seanfalconer .
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