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Career record · private · London

Jules Elm

Recorded achievements and their available source excerpts. Evidence labels reflect the saved pack; this reading view does not verify or approve claims.

3tenures · first date 2010
9achievements
0independently verified
0business outcomes
Jan 2018 – present

Fictional Fieldwork Ltd

  • Jul 2022 – presentHead of Engineering
  • Jan 2018 – Jun 2022Staff Engineer
team
18 engineers
reports
3 engineering managers

London

Nov 2024

Led a sensitive supplier review

Own accountOutputPrivate

SituationA supplier arrangement needed a confidential technical review.

TaskGive procurement a technical assessment without disclosing internal contract details.

ActionCoordinated engineering and procurement input and wrote the technical tradeoff assessment.

ResultProcurement used the assessment in its supplier review; commercial terms and the final decision remain private.

Handling
  • Private supplier and employer context; do not reuse in external documents.
1 source excerpt
  • SRC_SUBJECT
    2024-11: A supplier arrangement needed a confidential technical review. Give procurement a technical assessment without disclosing internal contract details. Coordinated engineering and procurement input and wrote the technical tradeoff assessment. Procurement used the assessment in its supplier review; commercial terms and the final decision remain private.
May 2023

Chose an adoption plan within team capacity

Own accountOutputPrivate

SituationFour product teams requested different platform improvements from the same small group.

TaskAgree priorities and ownership within the available engineering capacity.

ActionWorked with engineering managers and product leads to compare support burden and migration effort.

ResultThe group agreed a two-quarter platform adoption plan and named an owner for each migration; revenue impact was not measured.

1 source excerpt
  • SRC_SUBJECT
    2023-05: Four product teams requested different platform improvements from the same small group. Agree priorities and ownership within the available engineering capacity. Worked with engineering managers and product leads to compare support burden and migration effort. The group agreed a two-quarter platform adoption plan and named an owner for each migration; revenue impact was not measured.
Jun 2021

Shared deployment practice with peers

Own accountOutput

SituationA community event invited practitioners to discuss deployment practice.

TaskShare the approach with peers.

ActionCo-presented with Mara Vale at Community Systems Forum.

ResultThe programme lists both speakers and the shared talk; audience impact was not measured.

1 source excerpt
  • SRC_TALK
    Community Systems Forum, June 2021: "Practising deployments before production". Co-presenters: Jules Elm and Mara Vale, Fictional Fieldwork Ltd. The programme establishes the shared talk title and speaker listing, not audience size or impact.
Feb 2021

Agreed a gradual service separation

Own accountOutputPrivate

SituationProduct and operations disagreed about replacing a shared service in one release.

TaskMake the migration tradeoffs explicit and agree a sequence the teams could support.

ActionMapped failure boundaries with both groups and authored a staged separation proposal.

ResultThe teams chose a staged separation and retained a rollback path; product teams implemented the changes.

1 source excerpt
  • SRC_SUBJECT
    2021-02: Product and operations disagreed about replacing a shared service in one release. Make the migration tradeoffs explicit and agree a sequence the teams could support. Mapped failure boundaries with both groups and authored a staged separation proposal. The teams chose a staged separation and retained a rollback path; product teams implemented the changes.
Mar 2019

Created a deployment rehearsal tool

Own accountOutputPrivate

SituationProduct teams needed to test deployment steps before changing production.

TaskMake deployment practice repeatable without taking delivery ownership from the teams.

ActionDesigned the rehearsal format and co-built its runner with engineers.

ResultTwo teams adopted rehearsals before deployment.

1 source excerpt
  • SRC_SUBJECT
    In March 2019 I designed a deployment rehearsal format and co-built its runner with engineers. Two teams adopted rehearsals before deployment.
Jul 2014 – Dec 2017

Fictional North Quay Systems

  • Jul 2014 – Dec 2017Senior Software Engineer

London

Oct 2017

Practised incident decisions across teams

Own accountOutputPrivate

SituationTeams had recovery instructions but had not practised making decisions together.

TaskHelp service owners and support staff rehearse escalation decisions.

ActionFacilitated four incident exercises with service owners and support staff.

ResultThe group clarified escalation owners and recorded gaps in recovery instructions; outage reduction was not measured.

1 source excerpt
  • SRC_SUBJECT
    2017-10: Teams had recovery instructions but had not practised making decisions together. Help service owners and support staff rehearse escalation decisions. Facilitated four incident exercises with service owners and support staff. The group clarified escalation owners and recorded gaps in recovery instructions; outage reduction was not measured.
Mar 2016

Made a shared queue visible to service teams

Own accountOutputPrivate

SituationService teams could not distinguish a quiet queue from a stalled consumer.

TaskExpose queue age and ownership without replacing the messaging platform.

ActionDesigned a queue-age dashboard and paired with service owners to set alert thresholds.

ResultFive services adopted the dashboard and ownership alerts.

1 source excerpt
  • SRC_SUBJECT
    2016-03: Service teams could not distinguish a quiet queue from a stalled consumer. Expose queue age and ownership without replacing the messaging platform. Designed a queue-age dashboard and paired with service owners to set alert thresholds. Five services adopted the dashboard and ownership alerts.
Sep 2010 – Jun 2014

Fictional Civic Atlas

  • Sep 2010 – Jun 2014Software Engineer

London

Sep 2013

Handed routine recovery to operations

Own accountOutputPrivate

SituationRoutine recovery depended on an engineer remembering undocumented steps.

TaskHelp the operations team own routine recovery safely.

ActionPaired with operators to write recovery runbooks and rehearse failure cases.

ResultOperations maintained the runbooks and performed routine recovery; no response-time baseline was recorded.

1 source excerpt
  • SRC_SUBJECT
    2013-09: Routine recovery depended on an engineer remembering undocumented steps. Help the operations team own routine recovery safely. Paired with operators to write recovery runbooks and rehearse failure cases. Operations maintained the runbooks and performed routine recovery; no response-time baseline was recorded.
Apr 2012

Made data imports easier to recover

Own accountOutputPrivate

SituationImport failures were discovered after staff had started processing records.

TaskMake failures visible before processing and leave a recovery path for operators.

ActionBuilt validation checks and a rejected-record queue with the service-delivery team.

ResultOperators used the checks across 18 recurring data feeds.

1 source excerpt
  • SRC_SUBJECT
    2012-04: Import failures were discovered after staff had started processing records. Make failures visible before processing and leave a recovery path for operators. Built validation checks and a rejected-record queue with the service-delivery team. Operators used the checks across 18 recurring data feeds.

Strengths

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Direction

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    Publications, talks and media

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    Conference talks 1

    • Practising deployments before productionJun 2021
      Community Systems Forum · co speaker · with Mara Vale Own account

    Education

    Sep 2006 – Jun 2010

    BSc, Computer Science

    Fictional Eastbank University

    Capabilities