Inato

I've been with the company for three years, and in that time, I've continued to grow as a trusted partner to leadership in all things talent acquisition. My role covers every facet of attracting, hiring and retaining exceptional talent, including employer branding, talent attraction, interview training, learning and development, refining internal processes and overseeing our recruiting tech stack.

What I value most is the ability to identify opportunities and deliver strategic initiatives that drive the company forward. For instance, I've implemented tools to streamline hiring workflows and designed development programs to support our managers as they scale their teams.

This level of ownership allows me to continuously expand my expertise while ensuring talent acquisition is a key driver of our company's success. This desire to have a broad, meaningful impact is something we actively seek in all of our hires.

Inato's employees are smart and caring which are qualities I value at work. Secondly, it is a great environment if you want to have a big impact and the opportunity to learn a lot and develop professionally.

Our rule is simple: Make releasing so seamless that engineers focus on solving customer problems, not managing releases. We achieve this with a fully automated continuous integration/continuous development pipeline combined with feature flags for safety.

The process is straightforward: Start a branch from main; implement changes behind a feature flag; run automated tests; optionally request reviews; and merge to main and auto-release to staging and production. This setup lets us release to production more than 10 times a day while maintaining confidence and stability.

Our key KPIs are deployment frequency and the low rate of production incidents, proving that speed and quality can go hand in hand.

For us, the gold standard is the change failure rate, or the percentage of releases that introduce production issues. It shows whether we're maintaining quality while moving fast. We also monitor mean time to recovery because failures are inevitable, but how quickly and safely we recover defines our resilience.

Every incident sparks a blameless post-mortem where we capture lessons and update our processes. While we don't track every metric in real time, our goal is clear: Release quickly, detect issues early, recover fast, and improve continuously.

At the beginning of this year, we adopted Axiom, a real-time analytics and observability tool similar to Grafana, to bring deep visibility into both front-end and back-end performance. We use Axiom to aggregate key performance metrics and traces, from largest contentful paint for page speed to query-level data like N+1 queries and query waterfalls.

With dashboards to visualize these metrics, Axiom helps us: Detect bottlenecks early and uncover hidden performance issues; prioritize work based on data, not assumptions; and measure the real impact of every change we deploy. For example, Axiom showed us that some of our key pages had poor performance, which led us to prioritize a dedicated optimization project.

As a result, those pages are now loading more than twice as fast, directly improving the user experience. Thanks to Axiom, performance improvements at Inato have gone from being reactive and ad-hoc to data-driven, measurable, and continuous.