# Roopak Venkatakrishnan: The Importance of Optimizing For Local Development and Build Systems

EP-092 | March 15, 2021 | 48:40



Topics: DevOps, Developer Experience


Robby speaks with Roopak Venkatakrishnan, Engineering Manager at Bolt. They discuss why it's important to document the weird things and strategies for keeping your system easy to begin developing in. Roopak also talks about why we end up with silos of knowledge and how to alleviate that problem.





## Show Notes

Robby speaks with Roopak Venkatakrishnan, Engineering Manager at Bolt. They discuss why it's important to document the weird things and strategies for keeping your system easy to begin developing in. Roopak also talks about why we end up with silos of knowledge and how to alleviate that problem.

## Helpful Links

- [Roopak's Website](https://roopakv.com/)
- [Roopak on Twitter](https://twitter.com/roopakv)
- [Roopak on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/roopakv)
- [Swissknife CircleCI orb](https://circleci.com/orbs/registry/orb/roopakv/swissknife)

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