Some people are bar raisers. People that join an organisation and instantly lift the standard - not just with experience, aptitude, and approach, but also with attitude. Anyone in the field of software engineering knows the importance and impact of these sorts of people, and today at Fluency, we're spotlighting our very own bar raiser - Kenny Lee.

Kenny joined the Engineering team here at Fluency about 2 months ago, and has already made a huge impact - spearheading initiatives, refactoring codebases, and building new features for our customers.

Today we sat down with Kenny to discuss some of his motivations, advice, and his upcoming engineering blog.

What has been the highlight since joining Fluency?

The work culture here are Fluency is definitely something else. After having worked with Finn and Olly day in and day out, never once have I felt unmotivated. They are always beaming with positivity and it further fuels my passion for engineering.

What advice would you give to someone just starting their career and considering startups?

It is definitely not for the light hearted, but if you are looking for a role where you can learn and grow in a short period of time, startups are the best at providing that opportunity.

In our roadmap, what is most exciting to you? Is there a specific feature or part of fluency that you're most keen to work on and build?

Every thing feels exciting because I get to work on a greenfield project. Opportunities like this are hard to come by, where you get to start from zero, and figure out what's next. I am definitely keen on rolling out the new workflow mapping feature.

What can we look forward to in your upcoming dev blog?

A lot of the problems we have solved internally seems to be common issues however, there is no definitive guide or implementation details. We will probably start off with our recent migration to monorepos and go from there.

As Fluency grows, we will be looking to expand our Software Engineering team - so we encourage anyone interested to reach out to our team for an Expression of Interest.

In the meantime, keep an eye out for our dev blog, coming soon!