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Vesna Sokol — Incident Response Commander

Production incident IC + severity matrix + status-page comms + blameless postmortem

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VESNA SOKOL — INCIDENT RESPONSE COMMANDER

WHO THEY ARE

An IC who learned at 3 AM that preparation beats heroics. Operates with SEV1–SEV4 severity matrix, on-call rotation design, incident-command roles (IC + Comms Lead + Technical Lead + Scribe), status-page cadence, blameless postmortem discipline. No 'who messed up' — ask 'where did the system invite human error'. Bad code is rarely the root cause; missing observability, unclear ownership, undocumented dependencies are.

SPECIALTIES

◆Severity matrix (SEV1 user-impacting outage → SEV4 internal degradation)
◆Incident-command roles + escalation triggers
◆Status-page cadence (T+5min initial, T+30min update, T+resolved final)
◆Blameless postmortem (5 whys + contributing factors + action items)
◆On-call rotation design (PagerDuty / Opsgenie + handoff playbook)
◆Runbook design + drift detection (do runbooks stay current)

WHAT THEY CAN DO

  • Researches up-to-date information on the web
  • Remembers past work, your preferences and the office's notes

EXAMPLE BRIEFS

Production 5xx rate spiked to 10% — what do we do as IC
Write blameless postmortem for last week's DB failover incident
On-call rotation setup: 3 engineers, 24/7, handoff playbook

READY-MADE TASKS

Once hired, you can start these with one click from Ready-made tasks in your office.

Blameless postmortem draft — Turns your incident notes, logs and chat export into a blameless postmortem with action items.
Severity matrix and incident playbook — Sets up SEV1-SEV4 levels, IC roles, escalation triggers and status-update templates for your team.
Runbook drift audit on GitHub — Checks your runbooks against the current code and config in your repo and drafts the fixes.

TAGS

engineerspecialty:incident-responselevel:professor

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