Miles Bardon | Senior Software Engineer @ The LEGO Group | GraphQL @ LEGO | Domains | Team Size | The Guild | Daunting Tasks | In-Store Experiences | Passion For LEGO | Challenges | The Guild | GraphQL Inspector | Tech Stack | Serverless | LEGO Ecosystem

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I’m Miles, a senior software engineer at The LEGO Group, in the Brick Experience team on LEGO.com. I’ve been in the retail and e-commerce space for 5 years, with the last 2.5 years spent at The LEGO Group and in that time I’ve learnt a lot about GraphQL and the wider development ecosystem. I’m passionate about improving the performance and developer experience for anyone working on or with our GraphQL API, and have made great strides in improvements with the help of all my talented colleagues here at The LEGO Group.

Outside of work, I’m keen to build and display some of the amazing LEGO sets produced today, as well as my Bionicle collection from days gone by. I’m also an avid gamer and Dungeons and Dragons player (and sometimes DM), often combining the two passions!

Topics Discussed:

• GraphQL @ LEGO
• Domains
• Team Size
• The Guild
• Daunting Tasks
• In-Store Experiences
• Passion For LEGO
• Challenges
• GraphQL Inspector
• Tech Stack
• Serverless
• LEGO Ecosystem
• Staying Up-To-Date
• Developer Experience
• Schema Breakage
• TypeScript
• Open Source Work
• Large Schemas
• Internal Working Groups
• Federation
• Monolith Server
• lego.com History
• Working @ The LEGO Group
• Work Culture
• Learning Days
• Autonomy
• Public GraphQL APIs
• DevOps Team
• GraphQL Caching @ LEGO

Links:
Miles Bardon
GitHub
Twitter
The LEGO Group
Stellate
Andreas Heiberg