The English Department also considered that there would be no substantial loss in writing-based coursework because the courses that were previously associated with the Writing Certificate are still being offered. “The events and programming that had been tied to the Writing Certificate were happily distributed between the English Department and the Shapiro Writing Center.” “After careful consideration on the Academic Affairs side, and then careful deliberation by the whole English Department, and then consultation between the English Department and Academic Affairs, there was unanimous agreement that there’d be no detrimental effect on students, that it would provide clarity for the curriculum,” Garrett said. After much deliberation with the Office of Academic Affairs, the English Department concluded that the time had come to end the program, English Department Chair Professor Matthew Garrett explained. After her retirement, enrollment in the Writing Certificate was paused for a year, until the English Department made the decision to permanently discontinue it. Greene created the Writing Certificate in 2012 and acted as the Certificate’s coordinator until she retired. This decision comes after the departure of University Professor of English and Writing Certificate Co-Director Anne Greene, who announced her retirement at the end of the Fall 2021 semester. And I’m really into cooking at the moment – there’s something about following a recipe and going through a series of orchestrated steps that reminds me of coding.The English Department voted unanimously to discontinue the Writing Certificate on Wednesday, Sept. To try and switch off, I watch TV, listen to podcasts or play video games – I also started up an engineering book club at the start of the first lockdown. I usually finish up at 6ish, although I’m terrible for checking my emails in the evening. ![]() But once you’ve got used to that, things are surprisingly easy – it’s really not a big deal at all. I think there are some rules you need to learn for remote working and being in different zones – you need to be a bit flexible and not always expect to get your answers straight away. But we still all work together really well – it’s friendly and we joke around a lot. Weirdly, I’ve only met one of team-mates in real life, when I first joined up and spent two weeks in the New York office as part of an embed. Alternatively, we might work together to write documents like RFCs, debug production issues or help other developers with their infrastructure issues. ![]() This is when New York starts to wake up, so my work becomes more team-based – I often pair remotely with one of the developers out there, which means jumping on a hangout and sharing our screens, so we can collaborate on a piece of code. It used to happen when I worked in the office too, even though there was an awesome canteen and a table tennis table to tempt me away from my desk! I try to grab a bite to eat around 1pm, although I’m really bad at taking breaks – I get so sucked into what I’m doing that I forget the time, especially if I’m coding. That to me is the magical thing about open-source. Earlier this year, we open-sourced this plug in, which felt like a really great moment – it’s amazing to think it’s now available to everyone in the tech community worldwide and can benefit so many people outside our organization. ![]() Recently, I’ve been working on something called the k8s plug in, which vastly simplifies the Kubernetes experience for developers and means they can operate without a huge understanding of the platform under the hood. My work is mostly to do with Kubernetes – the technology we use to deploy our services at Spotify – and a lot of my time is spent helping other engineers get to grips with the system, debugging their issues and developing our infrastructure services, so they can deploy more easily and reliably. But the time difference means my mornings are fairly quiet and meeting-free – a chance for me to get down to focussed, individual tasks, without too many interruptions. My team is actually based in New York, so I tend to work 10–6 to overlap as much as possible with their hours. Which means I get up around 8am, drink lots of coffee (way too much!) and log onto my computer an hour later – ready to check my messages and start getting my brain into thinking mode. ![]() This time last year, he was living and working in London – but that’s all changed since the start of the pandemic…Īt the moment, I’m living with my wife and step daughter in London and working from home like most people. Matt is a Senior Backend Infrastructure Engineer and has been at Spotify for two-and-a-half years. Matt Clarke: Senior Backend Infrastructure Engineer
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