Episode Details

About our guest:

Nayana Shetty is a Principal Engineer at the LEGO Group. The LEGO Group is going through a massive digital transformation and she is helping with the architecture and engineering practices especially in the Ecommerce, Marketing and Channels technology. Over the years, she has led teams building products and tools that help organizations with site reliability and getting on the devops journey. Starting her career as a Quality Engineer, she is passionate about building quality into products from the start rather than an afterthought and creating a culture of quality using DevOps practices within teams.

Find our guest on:

• X (Twitter)
• LinkedIn

Find us on:

• All of our social channels are on bento.me/geekingout
• All of Adriana's social channels are on bento.me/adrianamvillela

Show Links:

• The LEGO Group
• Tesco
• Domain-Driven Design
• The Financial Times (FT)
• Filling the Jar of Impact and Trust as a Principal Engineer (talk by Nayana Shetty)
• The Four DORA Metrics

Transcript:

ADRIANA: Hey, y'all, welcome to Geeking Out, the podcast about all geeky aspects of software delivery, DevOps, Observability, reliability, and everything in between. I'm your host, Adriana Villela. Coming to you from Toronto, Canada. And geeking out with me today is Nyana Shetty from the LEGO Group. Welcome, Nyana.

NAYANA: Hi, Adriana. And I'm excited to be here and it's going to be interesting to see what we uncover over the next half an hour or so.

ADRIANA: Yes, absolutely. I am super stoked because I always love talking to fellow women in tech. And also you work at Lego, which...so iconic! Such an iconic product!

NAYANA: I mean, there's not been one person where I've introduced myself and said that I work for the LEGO Group and let's not put smile on them. There's not been one. I think it's the best place to work at that way.

ADRIANA: I can totally imagine. Well, before we dig into that, I've got some lightning round questions to ask you. They will be quick and painless.

NAYANA: Okay, let's try.

ADRIANA: All right, are you ready? Let's go. Okay, first question. Are you a lefty or a righty?

NAYANA: Righty.

ADRIANA: All right, do you prefer iPhone or Android?

NAYANA: iPhone any day. I don't know how Android works anymore.

ADRIANA: Fair enough. Do you prefer Mac, Linux or Windows?

NAYANA: Mac for most of my day to day work, but if it's actual tech work, Linux any day.

ADRIANA: I hear that a lot actually. Very cool, very cool. What is your favorite programming language?

NAYANA: Python.

ADRIANA: Me too.

NAYANA: I've done Python for a few years now and I don't write in Python anymore becau