Time for an #introduction post!

I'm Graham, I live in #Sydney, #Australia, on Dharawal country.

I've been working in #Tech since 2000, including 13 years at successful #fintech #startup #Tyro, from when they had 1 customer to just before they IPO'd. (Full resume: https://www.linkedin.com/in/grahamleasydney/)

I'm now working as the founder of Archium, a #SoftwareArchitecture knowledge base (aka #ServiceCatalog) that helps teams building & operating #DistributedSystems / #microservices by helping them maintain detailed and up-to-date architecture #documentation and #diagrams. (https://archium.io/)

I'm a little too passionate about climate change and politics, but am not partisan. I like to say my politics lean towards empathy.

Some hashtags I follow and will sometimes toot/boost (besides those above):
#Technology / #Software / #SoftwareDevelopment / #Programming / #Code / #Observability / #Kotlin / #webdev / #OpenSource
#AI / #ML / #DataScience
#ProductManagement / #ProdMgmt / #Leadership
#UX / #UxDesign
#Agile
#MountainBiking / #MTB
#Science
#ScienceFiction / #ScifFi / #DoctorWho
#auspol
#ClimateChange / #ClimateAction / #ClimateCrisis / #Renewables / #GreenEnergy / #Sustainability
#COVID19 / #CovidIsNotOver

@gergelyorosz
I experienced this a lot as a hiring manager at #Tyro.
#Sydney has a lot of investment banks, both local and foreign, employing a lot of Tech people. We'd often get experienced people from these employers applying to work with us on our #NeoBank #ScaleUp. They were usually very attracted by the interesting products we were working on, the cutting edge tech we were using, and the (truly) agile, non-bureaucratic culture.
But when it came time to talk about money, it was quite common for their pay to be significantly above our (already above-average) range. Many of them *knew* that their investment bank was paying them above (the rest of) the market , and they *really* wanted to move to something more enjoyable. But many of them also found it very hard to stomach the prospect of a small pay cut.
https://aus.social/@gergelyorosz@mastodon.online/109545675390110950