The author of the text was interviewing for a position at Netlify that involved maintaining, extending, and contributing to Apache Traffic Server, a high-throughput open-source HTTP proxy. The interview process included some practical work, where the author explored the contributions made by previous team members, specifically around ImageMagick, a well-established library used for image manipulation. The author then connected the powerful ImageMagick command line tool to an URL through a query parameter, creating a plug-in that could modify images without requiring code modifications in the plug-in itself. This plug-in was successfully implemented and presented at the Apache Traffic Server Fall Summit, where it received positive feedback from the community. The interview project was later merged into the Apache Traffic Server repository, allowing others to contribute to the open-source project.