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Double Agent Profile: Eve Ragins


Title: Eve Ragins
Designation: Agent 00138
Double Agent Function: Senior Software program Marketing consultant
Particular Expertise: Discovering gaps. Filling gaps. Distilling complexity. Fixing the exhausting issues.
Aliases: GitHub, LinkedIn
Location: Quickly-to-be Nomad
Favourite Emoji: 🤔

What influence are you proudest of in your profession?

I’ve constructed at the very least a pair core backend methods that — to the perfect of my data — nonetheless function the backbones for mission-critical methods in the present day. The 2 that come to thoughts are one for the WA Employment Safety Division which is like glue for making batch jobs, and the opposite is a few code which allow us to construct fashionable apps on prime of a mainframe. Impactfully, I’m pleased with these as a result of these methods have enabled scores of different builders to be manyfold extra productive and deal with enterprise performance.

And it feels good to have designed one thing which lasted. I do know for the batch processing system, many individuals have tried to supply extra “off-the-shelf” alternate options (like service buses), however none of these options have the identical mixture of performance that make it simple for each builders and manufacturing assist to do their jobs.

Trying forward, what has you most excited for the subsequent 12 months at work?

I’ve spent most of my profession as a person contributor, and with Check Double’s deal with development, I’m trying ahead to rising into rising others. And it’s additionally type of scary, like, who am I to advise someone else?

What’s your favourite factor about being a Double Agent at Check Double?

The tradition right here is wonderful. I’ve seen many occasions earlier than the place there’s the acknowledged tradition and the lived tradition and the way they don’t align. At Check Double, they align. Management specifically has been very intentional about not simply saying “right here’s our tradition”, however residing it AND having methods and processes in place which affirm and reinforce the tradition.

What do you assume makes Check Double distinctive?

Going again to the above, the tradition. And their mission could be very clear. And as with tradition, there are methods and processes in place which affirm and reinforce the mission. And (once more with methods and processes in place), they rent primarily based on alignment to the above along with technical expertise. It’s simple for one adverse individual to behave as gravity nicely and convey down all people else. However Check Double’s managed to realize the alternative: they appear to have achieved a crucial mass in the direction of positivity.

What have you ever been fascinated by quite a bit currently in software program growth, and why?

The way in which it permeates our lives. The way in which that the “minimal” is now so massive. We (collectively) hold iterating on methods to make writing creating software program extra environment friendly: new languages and tooling, “no code” options, and now AI-assisted growth. And there’s been a shift, although I don’t assume we’re absolutely there but, the place as an alternative of offering a set of preferences and pre-defined performance, we’re going to introduce an increasing number of “programmable” options. Sport mods are an incredible instance of this, nevertheless it’s extending to family home equipment and I don’t even know what else. I’m really type of a Luddite.

Why? Unsure, however I suppose the way in which that it impacts society, how we relate to one another, and the way we collectively strategy the world.

Inform me about one thing memorable that occurred to you and what you discovered from it.

That’s a tricky one. And I’m guessing you don’t imply mistaking a curb for a driveway at the hours of darkness. (Nothing dangerous occurred, however I certain freaked out the automobiles coming the opposite route. And myself.)

Extra severely, the issues that come to thoughts are a bit an excessive amount of for this. So, as a cheerful medium, as I’ve been attempting to filter out home to be a nomad, it grew to become apparent that some issues I used to be holding on to as “it could possibly be helpful some day” have been actually simply trash. I ought to throw trash away sooner, although I actually don’t like throwing issues away. I used to be fairly into Captain Planet as a child and Earth Day was close to the highest of my favourite holidays record.

What has you most enthusiastic about this 12 months exterior of labor?

I’m going to attempt to be a nomad! It’s been eager to do one thing like this for years. Proper earlier than the pandemic hit I’d simply landed a 100% distant gig; however our workforce needed to undergo cancelling tickets and motels for an in-person meet-and-greet. What a time. However I’ve lastly gotten round to taking actual precise steps and constructing momentum. Fingers crossed, in a pair weeks I’ll be home-less. Although sadly on account of timing with different issues, I don’t assume I’ll be capable of actually embrace a nomadic life till subsequent 12 months.

What e book/podcast/film/TV present have you ever been fascinated by quite a bit currently, and why?

I’m at present studying A Reminiscence Referred to as Empire, really helpful by a buddy, and it’s gratifying.

A number of months in the past, possibly longer, I began studying The Guide Thief, and it’s a good looking e book. And poignant. One thing about the way in which it’s written made WWII, the Holocaust, and the way it impacted so many lives extra actual than something I’d learn or seen earlier than. It’s caught with me.

What’s the largest lesson the pandemic taught you?

I’ve at all times been an introvert and reasonably a homebody, so I really feel comfy saying that it didn’t influence me almost as a lot because it did most individuals. For me personally, 2020 was really a fairly good 12 months, particularly when put next with those main as much as it.

To reply the query, although, I suppose that we, every of us, are masters of our personal journey. Possibly that’s simply because it coincided with different adjustments in my life, however someway felt much more true with the pandemic.

What’s one thing attention-grabbing about you that’s not in your resume or LinkedIn?

I really feel like I’ve shared fairly a bit. For one thing else, although, I’ve carried out just a little little bit of animal fostering — my present tally is 4 canines and 6 bunny rabbits. I like realizing that as a result of I’ve spent the time to study an animal’s persona, the possibilities of a great long-term adoption go up dramatically. It’s price it. And I get a short-term pet and plenty of cute photos. The lovable photos are exhausting to beat.

This interview is predicated on shared documentation with Eve Ragins and Cathy Colliver. It might or could not self-destruct.

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