Honeycomb

AUGUST 19, 2022

There was fresh momentum around the idea that engineering ICs should be able to progress up a dedicated technical career ladder—one that didn’t top out where management levels began, or push ICs on an up-or-out path into management. These constraints incentivized managers to think hard about how to retain and grow their best senior engineers.

Engineering 145

Engineering Part-Time VPE CTO Coach Engineering Management 145

Gitprime

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

In this Perspectives in Engineering interview series, engineering leaders talk about how to build, coach, and scale world-class technology teams. As a company scales, it’s inevitable that individuals will grow farther removed from other people, projects, and initiatives in the organization.

Part-Time VPE 45

Part-Time VPE Fractional VPE Weak Development Team Culture 45

Battery Ventures

MARCH 1, 2019

I once worked with a first-time CEO who needed to hire a VP of sales. He wanted to take charge of the hiring process—then I learned he was preparing by Googling “How to interview VP’s of sales.”. As a recruiter, I see too many companies jump into interviewing candidates before they know what they want.

Part-Time VPE 55

Part-Time VPE Weak Development Team Culture Recruiting 55

Gitprime

MAY 2, 2019

One of the primary reasons to build a distributed engineering organization is that a company is not limited by geographic boundaries. Juan Pablo Buriticá , however, seeks to build teams in places where other North American companies typically don’t: Latin America, especially in Colombia. Start by building a network and a brand.

Part-Time VPE 76

Part-Time VPE Engineering Fractional VPE Fractional CTO 76

Github

MARCH 11, 2020

They’re powering code at the world’s most influential companies, and they might even be important practices on your team. Instead, it describes how the processes and principles developers have used for decades to build large-scale open source software (think Git, Linux, or Python) can apply to closed source projects at companies of all sizes.

Organization 118

Organization Software Review Open Source Part-Time VPE 118

Kaseya

MAY 24, 2022

Kaseya is one of the hottest tech companies to work for right now. Headquartered in the exciting city of Miami, which is experiencing a tech renaissance, the company is committed to helping employees — known as Kaseyans – grow on their professional journeys. Senior Capstone has mutual benefit for both industry and academia.

Part-Time VPE 98

Part-Time VPE Machine Learning Artificial Inteligence Network 98

Honeycomb

MARCH 6, 2020

I am delighted to announce that we have a new VP of engineering: our own Emily Nakashima , formerly director of engineering (formerly manager, formerly engineer). First, I’d write a post if we had hired a new VP of engineering, so I should write one about having grown one from within.

Engineering 75

Engineering Part-Time VPE Policies Performance 75

Gitprime

MARCH 13, 2019

Every high-growth engineering organization eventually needs to address the challenges around restructuring teams, maintaining a productive culture, building resilient systems, and adjusting engineering processes. The senior engineer is there to support, guide, and make sure the project goes well.

Part-Time VPE 58

Part-Time VPE Engineering Weak Development Team Fractional VPE 58

Gitprime

MAY 30, 2019

Mailchimp’s engineering team is about 350 people, both distributed and remote, across the United States. Katie Womersley , VP of Engineering at Buffer. Buffer has a fully distributed engineering team—no home base, no hub, no offices. The engineering org is 35 people worldwide, covering nearly every time zone.

Engineering 75

Engineering Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Technical Advisors 75

Apiumhub

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Even Though you may find thousands of influencers on the internet, it is hard to know who is truly worth following. You can find a lot of useful information about DevOps and related technology topics in his Twitter account. John is a consultant and helps companies with Devops, Puppet, Docker, Kubernetes, etc. Bridget Kromhout

DevOps 72

DevOps Part-Time VPE Handbook Fractional VPE 72

Gitprime

APRIL 13, 2019

And that’s the stage where many of us don’t know what to do to usher in the next era of our company. asks Randy Shoup , the VP of Engineering at WeWork. Shoup himself has worked as an engineering leader with several companies of various sizes during periods of intense scaling over the last three decades.

Organization 81

Organization Technology Minimum Viable Product Part-Time VPE 81

James Shore

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Continuous improvement is an integral part of being Agile, so shouldn’t you kaizen your way to Agile in the first place? If you have a document-oriented culture, kaizen will help you streamline your documents. If you have a blame-oriented culture, it will help you place blame more accurately. Counterintuively. probably not.

Agile 103

Agile How To Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE 103

Altexsoft

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

In the words of Ben Treynor Sloss, Google’s VP of engineering who coined the very term SRE , “it’s what happens when you ask a software engineer to design an operation function.”. Such end-to-end continuity is paramount to reduce time to market and make rapid changes. A DevOps lifecycle. Source: Medium. No more silos.

DevOps 96

DevOps Engineering Software Review Weak Development Team 96

Honeycomb

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

I am delighted to announce that we have a new VP of engineering: our own Emily Nakashima , formerly director of engineering (formerly manager, formerly engineer). First, I’d write a post if we had hired a new VP of engineering, so I should write one about having grown one from within.

Engineering 52

Engineering Part-Time VPE Policies Performance 52

James Shore

DECEMBER 4, 2020

You’ve figured out which investments your company needs to make. If not, you can hire consultants. If you’re not prepared to get expert help, limit your Agile changes to a few teams at a time. Continuous improvement is an integral part of Agile, so shouldn’t you kaizen your way to Agile in the first place? Don’t skimp.

Agile 94

Agile Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Coaching 94

Gitprime

DECEMBER 31, 2018

In this interview series, Engineering Leaders talk about how to build high performing teams. We grow so fast,” Nightingale says of tech companies, “and we’re often run by founders who have not themselves experienced great management. When it comes to org structure, use the stuff that we’ve been using for a long time.”.

Engineering Management 40

Engineering Management Engineering Organization Part-Time VPE 40

Apiumhub

AUGUST 29, 2019

Today’s article is about the role of a Principal Engineer as many people still have doubts who is this person and what is his/her responsibilities in a company. Here I would like to share with you the outcomes of the “Path to Principal: Defining the Modern Principal Engineer” panel discussion that I had a chance to attend.

Engineering 32

Engineering Part-Time VPE Software Engineering Engineering Culture 32

Honeycomb

MARCH 4, 2021

This is the second time we’ve grown an executive from within. One year ago, I wrote a similar post welcoming Emily Nakashima to her new role as VP of Engineering. At Honeycomb, it’s important to me that we promote people and hire from within, and that we be transparent about what we choose to reward as an organization.

Part-Time VPE 52

Part-Time VPE Engineering Strategy Product Management 52

Honeycomb

AUGUST 3, 2023

How will you make sure engineers adopt the tool successfully? How will you measure and communicate the ROI, including outside of your immediate team and to leaders around the company? Addressing these questions will help you build a stronger case to take the time (and money, if it’s a paid product) to invest in the tool.

Part-Time VPE 98

Part-Time VPE Engineering Software Engineering Tools 98

Apiumhub

MAY 10, 2022

Listen to more than 70 speakers coming from the biggest companies like Ebay, Google, Spotify, IBM and NASA introducing you to some exciting topics, like: Software Design Open Source Security Architectural Design Service Mesh Apache APISIX. that can help companies work more effectively. Sponsors and Partners.

Conference 59

Conference Software Review Technical Review Systems Review 59

Cloudera

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

The pandemic has ushered in new ways of how we conduct businesses, remote work cultures, telehealth, grocery/food deliveries, etc. Cloudera DataFlow (CDF), the industry’s leading real-time streaming data platform, was truly at the frontlines helping our customers find clarity with their data during these dark times.

Part-Time VPE 60

Part-Time VPE Analytics Leadership eBook 60

LaunchDarkly

JUNE 12, 2020

On May 21, for the Test in Production Meetup on Twitch , Yoz Grahame, Developer Advocate at LaunchDarkly, moderated a panel discussion featuring Rebecca Murphey, Senior Technical PM at Indeed, and Ben Vinegar, VP of Engineering at Sentry. A company called Fresh Books. And I think every company is trying to do that too.

Weak Development Team 52

Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Development Engineering 52

Codegiant

JULY 8, 2021

This means out of the nine-hour shift, you’ll find an average employee being productive for less than three hours. And here it goes: Let’s say you own a sports shoes manufacturing company and produced 5,000 pairs of shoes in the month of May. That’s insane. How to Increase Productivity in Business? What is Workplace Productivity?

Weak Development Team 52

Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Software Review Project Management 52

Codegiant

JULY 8, 2021

This means out of the nine-hour shift, you’ll find an average employee being productive for less than three hours. And here it goes: Let’s say you own a sports shoes manufacturing company and produced 5,000 pairs of shoes in the month of May. That’s insane. How to Increase Productivity in Business?

Weak Development Team 52

Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Software Review Project Management 52

Codegiant

JULY 8, 2021

This means out of the nine-hour shift, you’ll find an average employee being productive for less than three hours. And here it goes: Let’s say you own a sports shoes manufacturing company and produced 5,000 pairs of shoes in the month of May. That’s insane. How to Increase Productivity in Business?

Weak Development Team 52

Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Software Review Project Management 52

Gitprime

AUGUST 15, 2019

With an eye on the long-term health of our teams, our engineers, and our companies, that latter responsibility is at least as critical as the products we deliver. People can certainly move between engineering and management, between engineering and product, between different areas of engineering, and so on.

Weak Development Team 45

Weak Development Team Engineering Development Part-Time VPE 45

James Shore

JANUARY 10, 2025

This is a talk about what you do, as VP of Engineering, when somebody asks for the impossible. Our company is fully remote, so he invited me to come to his house next time I was in his city so we could discuss it face-to-face. But our company is relatively small. the FAANG companies. for most companies.

Engineering 141

Engineering Software Review Weak Development Team Agile 141

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

AUGUST 13, 2020

In our fifth episode of Breaking 404 , we caught up with Monica Bajaj, Senior Director of Engineering, Workday to hear out the different biases that exist in tech roles across organizations and how difficult it can get for a woman to reach a senior position, especially in tech. I have pets and I leave them and they figure it out. “

Technical Review 100

Technical Review Part-Time VPE Software Review Weak Development Team 100

Honeycomb

JANUARY 5, 2021

Honeycomb, the company. At the start of lockdown, many companies doubled down on their butts-in-seats culture with Zoom surveillance and other creeptastic endeavors. I believe this human-centered approach is a big part of what’s helped us attract so many amazing new hires. So many wins in 2020.

Part-Time VPE 59

Part-Time VPE Technical Review Engineering Software Review 59

Honeycomb

JANUARY 5, 2021

Honeycomb, the company. At the start of lockdown, many companies doubled down on their butts-in-seats culture with Zoom surveillance and other creeptastic endeavors. I believe this human-centered approach is a big part of what’s helped us attract so many amazing new hires. So many wins in 2020.

Part-Time VPE 52

Part-Time VPE Technical Review Engineering Software Review 52

Honeycomb

JULY 14, 2023

Charity once said an off-hand sentence that became a mantra for my transition into the VP of Engineering role: “Directors run the company.” My priority number one had been to “run engineering well.” Early in my career, I had the experience of working for a company where everything felt broken but it wasn’t clear why.

Part-Time VPE 98

Part-Time VPE Engineering Weak Development Team Energy 98