Serverless Engineer, where are you?

Sheen Brisals
4 min readDec 18, 2019
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Me: Hello… Serverless Engineer! Can you hear me? Anyone out there?

Them: Who is that?

Me: Relax, nothing serious! I am on the lookout for a Serverless Engineer.

Them: Who on earth are you? Are you some sort of technical geek on the lookout for your next book title?

Me: Oh no no. None of that.

Them: Oh, you are one of those philosophical types talking at conferences, right?

Me: Not philosophical, but talks, yes.

Them: Hmm.. so you are being paid by some innovative recruiter to come up with a fancy hiring title then?

Me: Oh no no! Not that lucky. By the way, did you just say “innovative”?

Trait #1 — Innovative

Them: Ok ok, we can guess. You are someone floating around and screaming in the cloud?

Me: Please no! There are experts more qualified than me doing that already.

Them: But we do hope you understand and know at least a little bit of what ‘cloud’ is.

Me: Absolutely! We are in sync there and glad to hear that you all see cloud as a thing and not as vapour, which is great.

Trait #2 — Cloud First

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Sheen Brisals

Co-author of Serverless Development on AWS (O'Reilly, 2024) | Engineer. Architect. Leader. Writer. Speaker. AWS Serverless Hero.