🗒 ️ Dominique's Personal README
Welcome to my personal README! The idea of this README is inspired by other GitLab team members like Simon Mansfield, and Kristof Goossens who have shared personal READMEs, as well as Sid's transparency about his own flaws.
In this document I hope to provide you with some insights of who I am, what I do, how I work, and how to best interact and connect with me. I've intentionally chosen for this to be public, so if you know me and have something to add, or if something is not right, feel free to submit any fixes via MR.
💼 Work
I am a Solutions Architect in the Enterprise Northern Europe (Ent NEUR) team. I am also co-chair of the GitLab Disability & Neurodivergence TMRG, feel free to connect with the TMRG on Slack at #disability-and-neurodivergence-tmrg
(link to internal slack channel)
🤩 Personality / Emotional Intelligence
I always find these personality tests interesting, although it seems like the tests I've taken provided me with rather accurate results!
Meyer's Briggs via 16personalities.com
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Personality: Campaigner (Turbulent) (ENFP-T) Extraverted, Intuitive, Feeling, Prospecting, Turbulent.
Campaigners are enthusiastic, creative, and sociable free spirits, who can always find a reason to smile. They embrace big ideas and actions that reflect their sense of hope and goodwill toward others. -
Role: Diplomat
Diplomats focus on empathy and cooperation, shining in diplomacy and counselling. They’re imaginative, warm, empathic, and influential people, often playing the role of harmonizers. -
Strategy: Social Engagement
Individuals who prefer the Social Engagement Strategy are restless, perfectionistic people, prone to experiencing very positive and negative emotions. They’re curious and willing to work hard, making them high-achievers.
For more in-depth information, feel free to check my full report here
Tilt Framework via tilt365.com
The Tilt framework is a little different, but I have still recognised myself in the majority of the results.
- Connection - The Cross Pollinator You have a natural proclivity for social and emotional intelligence that links People & Ideas. Adept at reading other people's emotions and quickly surmising their specific interests, you are a natural cross pollinator of exciting ideas. Emotionally intuitive, you easily identify the subtle needs of others to give them precisely what they appear to want. Others often see you as very hospitable, gracious and generous. You are genuinely interested in diverse perspectives and want to perpetuate them in some way. Comfortable with going into a new situation without much information, you quickly interpret the cues and improvise easily. You may develop broad social networks that can be powerfully influential because your uplifting energy spreads human spirit and tempts others to join your causes and events.
Find more information on what it means to be a Cross Pollinator here
🗣 ️ Communication & Collaboration Preferences
Clear communication is key to successful collaboration. As I have ADHD, there are some 'best practices' for working with me, to ensure maximum efficiency.
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The shortened version of my name is Domi.
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Any quick questions please use Slack, ideally in a public channel with the appropriate topic.
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For any personal, privacy sensitive, or SAFE topics, feel free to use the appropriate private channels, or DMs.
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When DM'ing please practice No Hello - please tell me what you are contacting me about promptly and efficiently.
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Any product or support related questions, use issues, or the associated Slack channels.
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Please refer to the GitLab Communication Handbook page, assume low context and overcommunicate where possible.
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Please manage my expectations, 'No' is always an acceptable answer.
⚖ ️ Values
Like for many fellow GitLab Team Members, the GitLab CREDIT values have been a big deciding factor for my joining.
The values that resonate the most with me are;
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Transparency: "Be open about as many things as possible", that is my default state as well! Sometimes to a fault
😅 - Efficiency: I'm always looking for the most efficient ways of doing a task, or helping others being more efficient. I love a process.
- Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging: As for many neurodivergent women in tech, working for a company that truly cares about diversity, inclusion, and belonging, and actively works towards making the workplace enjoyable for all is very important to me.
🎭 Public Speaking / Events
I like public speaking, if you want me to speak at your event please feel free to use the following details:
Bio
Meet Dominique, a Solutions Architect at GitLab. She is a passionate individual with interests in music, technology, and giving back to the community. Dominique prides herself on being a keen learner, solver of problems, and connector of dots and people. She is always interested in finding more efficient ways of doing things and helping others do the same. She is an Ambassador of OpenUK, an organisation advocating and promoting the use and development of Open Technologies in the UK. In addition, Dominique is a frequent attendee, as well as organiser of several DevOps related Meetups and Conferences, such as Docker London and DevOpsDays London. When she is not geeking out over the latest DevOps technologies, you can find her indulging in her love for cooking, playing video games, watching anime, or pursuing her passion for music by singing and spinning tracks as a techno DJ.
Pics
Not-work
I do in fact have a life outside of work! I am originally from the Netherlands, and moved to the UK in 2016. I live with my fiancé in London. I like to cook, although I'm not Masterchef material. I am a self-proclaimed 'home barista' (#coffee-and-tea), I get my coffee beans from "coffee daddy" James Hoffman's coffee roastery Square Mile Coffee. I like playing video games (#gaming), I play on PS5, Nintendo Switch, and PC. I've actually built my own PC, and mechanical keyboard (#keyboards), and I like watching anime (#hobby-otaku-anime-manga).
I am very into music; I have been singing for as long as I can remember. I have a degree in Vocals & Sound Engineering. I've been in bands (Two Way Radio, #trendingtopic, Dev/Null & The Kernel Panics) since I was like 14, and I've been a Techno DJ (D'lectronique) since I was 18.
My Music
At the moment I am mostly focused on DJ'ing, but I'll include some links to older recordings too.
D'lectronique on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/dlectronique
D'lectronique on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@dLectronique
- Duality.Sync - Fake Happy (Paramore Cover), on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ad6cGBwyMn8?si=P7UPxHHGUqb7dUay
- Two Way Radio - Not What I want, on YouTube: https://youtu.be/wdFLaKj5p-A?si=Wkj5MEjXmovNDLmO
- Two Way Radio - Flatscreen Hero, on YouTube: https://youtu.be/CI8hGichDRw?si=BoKBZVM_K1ZGnRAB
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Pronounced as: do-mee-neeque
Pronouns: she/her