• I'm a wannabe artist at my craft- never perfect, only reasonably good. Perseverance and solving simple problems keeps me employed.
• English isn't my first language. I grew up in India, learnt Brit English and watched American TV.
• I requested Profile READMEs feature on twitter and got a shout-out during github all-hands. That was also my first all-hands as GitHub employee.
• Auth and identity are the only solved problems in tech. You can't say "it-depends" when you're presented with a valid jwt. My household is full of more such token trash talk.

💛 I love people.💛 💙 I love seeing people on Zoom and talking to beautiful humans. The zoom fatigue thing that's hitting everyone. Nope, not me. I promise! 🍿

My GitHub calendar is public and I'm happy to talk to you any day, just block some time on my calendar with an agenda. If you want to just see me, just add the agenda as "👋 Divya, long time, no see." If you need something from me, just state it in the agenda to help me help you.

However, in case you are optimizing for your focus hours and want to meet me asynchronously, here are my typical response times:

• @ mention me on GitHub: I'll get back to you within a day. Long running product issues, PR reviews generally fall in this category. I'll provide thoughtful, well-researched responses in this category.
• @ mention me on Slack: I'll get back to you whenever I next get to slack between meetings, typically 0-2 hours. Customer support issues, ℹ️ issues fall in this category.
• Slack DM: I'll get back to you whenever I next get to slack between meetings, typically 0-2 hours.
• @-mention me in slack DM: I'll throw everything out the door (including my current meeting/commitments) and prioritize this. Dog videos, /r/childrenfallingover content typically fall in this category.

• I usually get out of their way and ask questions. I learnt that people really know a lot about where they want to be and mostly need feedback about their approach. I ask questions to listen and deep-dive into any issues. Occasionally, I help them quantify and articulate their own fears or doubts.

• Seeing is believing. Tell me what's your motivation to pursue the current direction. Tell me what are you optimizing for? My super-secret, super-awesome tool to build alignment: this!

• If it's impacting any ongoing conversation or collaboration effort, I will provide direct feedback in slack DM. Things like: 'Hey, this is how we can work better together' or 'Hey, help me understand what I'm doing!' I'll usually be brief and try to find some common ground where we can build trust.
• If you request me direct feedback for your professional/career growth, I'll be explicit and rely on quarterly reflectives with clear examples. Things like: 'Hey, remember when that customer bulldozed us to do things, here's how I think we could have dealt with that conversation better.' I'll provide clear feedback and include actionable items. Things like 'love-your-CI-skills', 'fond-of-your-summary-docs', 'please-use-more-documentation', 'write-more-tests' etc. I'll refrain from providing feedback unless it's actionable. 💜💜