Paulo Gomes

🚨 I see brilliant contractors fail interviews every week. Not because they’re not good enough …but because they forget to show what they know. 💡 These are seriously talented people who can spin up an environment, debug a mess of legacy code, and deliver clean, scalable solutions. But when it comes to interviews? They undersell themselves. Here’s the problem 👇 Clients don’t see your skill they only hear what you can explain. If you can’t walk them through your thinking, they can’t picture you doing the job. That’s why I always tell my contractors to use the P.E.E. method: 👉 Point  Evidence  Explain When asked a question: Point: Make your main point clearly. Evidence: Back it up with a real example from a project. Explain: Tie it back to how it fits their role or tech environment. 🧠 Example: “I’d approach that with a microservices pattern. In my last project, we split a monolith into 6 services using Node and Docker that reduced deploy times by 40%, which sounds similar to what you’re describing.” That’s not just answering that’s selling your value. ✨ Bonus prep tips for contractors: Ask your recruiter if they have insight from others who’ve interviewed it’s often gold. Check if there’s a tech test and prep accordingly. Review the tech stack brush up on fundamentals and common interview questions. Practice talking through your examples out loud great devs often think clearly but explain vaguely 🎯 Bottom line: Intelligence isn’t enough in an interview communication is what sells it. You already know your stuff. Your goal is to make sure the client knows it too.

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The concept of DevOps means different things to different organisations. I'd love to know how many times myself and Dan Bowers have said that in client briefing sessions. The same could now be said when hiring SRE's and Platform Engineers. It can be completely different from company to company. I'm sure this happens all the time. Especially with technologists who are sitting in interviews and know the job details. At a high level, the company might think they need an SRE, but what they actually need is a Platform Engineer. #SRE #PlatformEngineers #DevOps #Hiring

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Your CI/CD bill is not exploding because of “expensive runners,” it is bleeding out through flaky tests, over-parallelized jobs, and slow feedback loops that quietly tax every deploy This piece shows you how to redesign pipelines so you cut compute waste, shrink queues, and speed up developer flow without adding yet another approval gate or YAML religion Full breakdown in the comments. #DevOps #CICD #PlatformEngineering

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One year ago this month, on 8 November 2024, Ruby on Rails 8.0 fundamentally transformed how developers deploy applications, enabling single developers to manage production infrastructure without Platform-as-a-Service dependencies. Rails 8.0's deployment revolution: 🔹 Kamal integration for straightforward deployments 🔹 SQLite production capabilities without separate database servers 🔹 Solid Queue replacing Redis for background jobs 🔹 Solid Cache and Solid Cable eliminating infrastructure dependencies The release proved DHH's "one person framework" vision. Individual developers could now manage sophisticated production applications that previously required dedicated operations teams. Rails 8.0 demonstrated that simplicity and capability aren't mutually exclusive. Modern web applications don't require complex infrastructure when the framework handles deployment intelligently. What Rails 8.0 features transformed your deployment approach? We're connecting with developers who appreciate both technical capability and operational simplicity. #RubyOnRails #Rails8 #DeploymentSimplicity #TechHistory #TechRecruitment

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