Heroesofprod

Meet the heroes of prod
Engineers who answered the late-night page and kept prod running

"If your name isn't being mentioned, that's usually a good thing." That's the motto we live by as Red Flag Engineers at Toast, where more than 180,000 restaurant locations run on our POS and roughly $240 billion in payments flows through it every year.
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Pedro SardelaToast
“It’s not about who’s on-call; that’s the obvious piece people gravitate towards. It’s about how you inject reliability from the outset, to avoid having the issue in the first place.”
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Duncan Winn
“Everyone expects things to just work, no questions asked. But when something breaks, that’s when we’re noticed.” Rita keeps Blueground’s platform running whether it be from the corner of a restaurant or from bed at 3:00 AM.
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Rita ChiouBlueground
“If you’re standing outside a stadium using Gametime to buy a last-minute ticket and the purchase fails, you’re not thinking about a data pipeline.” Sean keeps Gametime’s ticket ingestion running, and is paving the road for agents.
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Sean SkiverGametime
When a spike in database load took down production, Emilios stabilized the system, then kept going: cleaning up the queries behind it, strengthening the database infrastructure, and redesigning the alert pipeline to protect critical workflows from inefficient queries.
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Emilios NicolaouResolveAI
"If your name isn't being mentioned, that's usually a good thing." That's the motto we live by as Red Flag Engineers at Toast, where more than 180,000 restaurant locations run on our POS and roughly $240 billion in payments flows through it every year.
Read the full story
Pedro SardelaToast
“It’s not about who’s on-call; that’s the obvious piece people gravitate towards. It’s about how you inject reliability from the outset, to avoid having the issue in the first place.”
Read the full story
Duncan Winn
“Everyone expects things to just work, no questions asked. But when something breaks, that’s when we’re noticed.” Rita keeps Blueground’s platform running whether it be from the corner of a restaurant or from bed at 3:00 AM.
Read the full story
Rita ChiouBlueground
“If you’re standing outside a stadium using Gametime to buy a last-minute ticket and the purchase fails, you’re not thinking about a data pipeline.” Sean keeps Gametime’s ticket ingestion running, and is paving the road for agents.
Read the full story
Sean SkiverGametime
When a spike in database load took down production, Emilios stabilized the system, then kept going: cleaning up the queries behind it, strengthening the database infrastructure, and redesigning the alert pipeline to protect critical workflows from inefficient queries.
Read the full story
Emilios NicolaouResolveAI
"If your name isn't being mentioned, that's usually a good thing." That's the motto we live by as Red Flag Engineers at Toast, where more than 180,000 restaurant locations run on our POS and roughly $240 billion in payments flows through it every year.
Read the full story
Pedro SardelaToast
“It’s not about who’s on-call; that’s the obvious piece people gravitate towards. It’s about how you inject reliability from the outset, to avoid having the issue in the first place.”
Read the full story
Duncan Winn
“Everyone expects things to just work, no questions asked. But when something breaks, that’s when we’re noticed.” Rita keeps Blueground’s platform running whether it be from the corner of a restaurant or from bed at 3:00 AM.
Read the full story
Rita ChiouBlueground
“If you’re standing outside a stadium using Gametime to buy a last-minute ticket and the purchase fails, you’re not thinking about a data pipeline.” Sean keeps Gametime’s ticket ingestion running, and is paving the road for agents.
Read the full story
Sean SkiverGametime
When a spike in database load took down production, Emilios stabilized the system, then kept going: cleaning up the queries behind it, strengthening the database infrastructure, and redesigning the alert pipeline to protect critical workflows from inefficient queries.
Read the full story
Emilios NicolaouResolveAI
Nominate a hero of prod
Anyone who’s done something ‘heroic’ to keep production running, whether that be responding to an incident late night or firefighting back to back bugs. You’ll receive a limited edition Hero of Prod shirt and your nominee will also have an opportunity to claim theirs. Simply enter your information, share their story on LinkedIn or X, and tag ResolveAI - we’ll reach out and take care of the rest.




