Issue 02

The receipts.

Selected work from a career spent making complicated systems more resilient, legible, and human.

01 / Engineering systems

Building resilience without building a culture of heroics

I help engineering organizations replace fragile knowledge, unclear ownership, and reactive work with shared context, healthier operating rhythms, and systems people can trust.

  • Platform engineering
  • Developer experience
  • Organizational resilience

02 / Technical program leadership

Turning consequential, cross-functional work into a program people can move

My work with justice-centered data programs brings together planning, technical translation, stakeholder alignment, and the unglamorous operational details that keep important work from stalling.

  • Program strategy
  • Data justice
  • Cross-functional leadership

03 / Operations

Giving growing organizations enough structure to stay human

As an operations leader, I create the connective tissue between vision and delivery: decision paths, communication practices, sustainable cadence, and clearer ways of working.

  • Operating models
  • Team health
  • Change leadership

04 / Developer advocacy

Making technical systems legible, useful, and worth participating in

From community technology to developer platforms, I translate between builders, users, leaders, and communities so the system reflects what people actually need.

  • Technical communication
  • Community
  • Developer relations

Artifacts from the field

Selected projects.

Concrete things I helped make, move, or bring into the world.

Public transit / Technology implementation

TARC Trainz

A technology implementation project for Louisville's public transit system, bringing project structure, stakeholder coordination, and change leadership to consequential work serving frontline teams and the public.

  • Program delivery
  • Public infrastructure
  • Change leadership
Archived page for Violet Olds' first civic technology mapsARCHIVE / 2015

Civic tech / Interactive mapping

My First Maps

Two interactive public-resource maps created in Palm Beach County: one locating substance-abuse detox and treatment facilities for the Code for America Palm Beach Brigade, and one locating free HIV testing sites for the Palm Beach County Health Department.

  • Google Maps
  • Public health
  • Accessible information

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