Summing up my incredible journey at trivago

After almost three years, I left trivago last Friday. I shared this on my social accounts with the promise to write about my journey. This is going to be an emotional and a very sincerely written blog post.

In my last 1:1s with my leads on the last days, I received very good feedback on how inspiring and empowering my engineering journey had been. As much as I was flattered to hear this, I think this worked both ways. trivago, with its diverse people and its passionate culture, empowered me and gave me space to create as well.

It might sound cheesy to you so, let me tell you my story.

Before I joined trivago, I was a Junior Software Engineer with full of energy. I was looking for companies who could see my potential primarily rather than years of experience. My 3 hours long on-site interview was full of fruitful conversations that at those moments I knew this was a good place to be.

I started in the Software Operations where I did A LOT of automation work, maintenance of container schedulers and cronjob frameworks to give developers a platform to move faster. That team later grew into an SRE team that handles trivago’s backend infrastructure in the cloud. My last two years were a lot about Cloud technologies, infrastructure as code, monitoring, alerting, starting on-call rotation, post mortems etc. It has been technically and personally very challenging that I don’t think I had such a learning speed in my entire life!

First of all, as a Software Engineer I am very grateful for;

with all this I am also grateful for;

Most importantly, I feel lucky to have worked with all the intelligent and nice human beings. Thank you for being part of this incredible journey. I am content, happy and excited for my next chapter!

Love,

Busra

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