Avi Zurel - Technical Leadership & Engineering

I was working on something internally for Hippo the other day.

Recently, I started using Obsidian again.

Open Source Projects & Contributions This page showcases my open source projects and contributions to the community.

[Strong Opinion] Most internal platforms fail because they try to be too flexible.

Recently I was in a discussion about what looked like a very simple feature.

Recently, I adopted nix as my go-to solution for managing all kinds of settings.

Summary At Hippo, we have dozens of engineers across teams, with very different access patterns.

At Hippo Insurance, we build an integration testing framework/infrastructure that makes writing integration tests a no-brainer and super productive (and fun).

At Hippo Insurance, we built a platform as a service that allows engineers to add/mutate service-infrastructure simple and engineer-friendly.

Onboarding new people to the team is a challenge.

AWS has a very powerful API.

At Globality, we’ve been running Docker in production for the past ~3 years.

One of the most effective tools in your toolbox as a manager is the 1:1 meeting.

I see a lot of people talking about “culture fit”.

Scaling an engineering organization has a lot of moving parts.

At Globality we have about 120K lines of Terraform configuration that we use to manage our infrastructure.

One of the features we have at Globality is to update build/setting files on all of our projects using the Github API.

Bike commuting is great for many reasons, you stay healthy and fit, you get to enjoy time outside and you don’t waste your life away inside a car in traffic.

Getting python 3.7 installed on OSX might seem simple, but a quick Google search will show you that it’s anything but.

Intro You often hear about scale issues when discussing capacity, traffic, users and other resource related topics and issues.

I recently imported this entire blog from Wordpress to Hugo.

I build systems.