Hi, I'm Violet.

Building resilient engineering organizations with heart 💜

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The manifesto / What I believe about engineering systems

Systems should generate power without treating people as fuel.

Small things produce enormous consequences. Engineering systems are human systems. And comfort and authority are not opposites.

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Programs, platforms, teams, and the stories behind the outcomes.

Ideas about infrastructure, power, people, and technology.

Emergency management to platform engineering, with several plot twists.

On the workbench / unfinished zine

A work-in-progress guide to autonomy, transparency, consent, resilience, and community-powered infrastructure.