I eventually started to own the performance aspect of the product, which was a great opportunity to learn about architecture choices on large scale web applications. Opportunities arose and I got lucky and got to build a performance "squad", a sub-unit of 3-4 people, in order to expand the scope of the performance work.

I got to experience a lot of interesting challenges, from the technical side to the organizational side. There was scope to be had and I was lucky to be there at the right time and at the right place. Experiencing how to build/maintain a team and a product surface was a tough and challenging adventure but I had a lot of fun doing it.

This also led me to cooperate with a lot of different teams, like the Facebook.com Web Infra team and the React team, which was a great opportunity to meet and learn greatly from amazing people.

I then moved to the React Native team, where I worked on performance as well, this time from the perspective of a framework maintainer. It was an interesting episode, where I learned a bit about Android development and how the performance requirements of mobile applications differ from those of web applications.

  I then decided to jump aboard the Vercel skyrocket in 2022 as a Software Engineer. I initially worked on Edge Config product but I decided that I had taken a liking to working on a framework team and I moved to the Next.js team around September.