Northwind — Platform team
personalEmployed at Northwind — Platform team
Working with Rado
How I work, what I expect, and where I am strict — authored by me, released to you for this engagement.
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Work & Org
Deep-work mornings
personalDeep-work mornings — no meetings before 11:00
Northwind eng norms
personalNorthwind eng: trunk-based, ship behind flags, no Friday deploys
Northwind approved vendors
personalNorthwind approved vendors: AWS, Datadog, Linear
On-call rotation
personalOn-call rotation — one week every six
Northwind security policy
personalNorthwind security policy: SSO everywhere, no prod data on laptops
Voice & Taste
Plain, direct writing
publicWrites plain and direct — no corporate filler, no hype
Northwind house style
publicNorthwind house style: Oxford comma, US spelling
Northwind comms norms
personalNorthwind comms: async-first, decisions written up as RFCs
Craft & Knowledge
Restrained taste
publicRestrained, functional taste — Rams over decoration
Distributed systems
publicDistributed systems; fluent TypeScript, Go, Postgres
Design doc before code
personalA design doc before code; tests first
Self-reviews PRs
personalReviews own PRs before requesting review
Northwind stack
personalNorthwind stack: gRPC, Kubernetes, the internal 'Helix' framework
Northwind incident runbook
personalNorthwind incident runbook: page on-call, declare a sev, post-mortem within 48h
Goals & Values
No dark patterns
personalWon't ship dark patterns — a hard line
Maintainability first
publicOptimizes for long-term maintainability over speed