Operations Tool Making

Introduction

When I was young and early in my work career, between ski seasons when I was an instructor and high school semesters, I was lucky enough to work in a machine shop as a machinist assistant. Over the summers, I worked in loud, hot shops, loading metal into machines and watching it turn into aircraft wheel and brake systems for Matco Mfg. It was an enlightening time, and one that I think about frequently in my career as a Software Engineer, SRE, and Platform Engineer.