SoCal CTO

MARCH 2, 2015

I’ve written quite a bit about aspects of this topic, especially from the perspective of startup founders looking for talent – you can find these in: Startup CTO. Of course, just because a CTO or VPE is listed doesn’t mean it’s working well. Armed with your networking tool, now it’s time to get it out to all the people you know.

Technical Cofounder 63

Technical Cofounder CTO Coach Part-Time VPE Engineering 63

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

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

APRIL 9, 2019

They’re hiring data scientists expecting them to be data engineers. The company goes on an exhaustive search to find the best data scientist ever. We hired you to do data science.”. Conferences aren’t telling CxOs about the virtues of data engineering. We have conferences on data engineering. That’s great.

Data Engineering 112

Data Engineering Engineering Data Technical Review 112

Gitprime

MARCH 13, 2019

You can watch the entire webinar here , or read on for six highlights from the discussion with Randy Shoup , the VP of Engineering at WeWork; Cornelia Davis , the Senior Director of Technology at Pivotal; and Saminda Wijegunawardena , the Vice President of Engineering at Box. Hire for character first, competency second.

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

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

Honeycomb

AUGUST 3, 2023

So-called “tech debt” could amount to more than two thirds of the different types of work an engineer might touch , if you apply the label broadly. Of course all of this work could make up a significant portion of a responsible engineer’s quarter or year. Struggling to negotiate time for tech debt?

Part-Time VPE 98

Part-Time VPE Engineering Software Engineering Tools 98

Gitprime

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Nightingale recently sat down with GitPrime’s CEO, Travis Kimmel , for an episode on Software Engineering Radio. Their conversation covered everything from how startups should think about management and how to hire for it, to “troubleshooting” management. You usually only have one VP of engineering,” Nightingale says.

Engineering Management 40

Engineering Management Engineering Organization Part-Time VPE 40

Stacks on Stacks

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

AWS plans to release thousands of hours of content and make hundreds of announcements over the course of the 3-week event. you won’t find compilations of announcements or who has the best SWAG. It’s a lot to take in?—?even even from the comfort of your own home (and sweat pants). Now this guide is a little different than others?—?you

Serverless 52

Serverless Part-Time VPE AWS DevOps 52

Xicom

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

The course of achieving every citizen’s heart is full of intricacies and convolution due to many decisive factors, and smart technologies are a stepping stone towards achieving it. Citizen Satisfaction is the key to unlock the heart of every forward thinking city.

Travel 52

Travel Mobile Part-Time VPE Transportation 52

Tenable

MAY 3, 2024

1 - Verizon DBIR: Hackers feasting on unpatched vulnerabilities This year’s edition of Verizon’s “Data Breach Investigations Report” (DBIR) is out, and a key finding is that attackers tripled down on exploiting vulnerabilities to gain an initial foothold in victims’ networks. 1, 2022 to Oct.

Infrastructure 75

Infrastructure Programming Conference Fractional VPE 75

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. I’ve honestly only gone larger and larger over the course of my career.

Weak Development Team 52

Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Development Engineering 52

James Shore

DECEMBER 4, 2020

If not, you can hire consultants. Start with an influential manager you trust and recruit them as an ally. The engineering manager found my thoughts about scaling insightful, so he introduced me to his VP of Engineering. The VP was concerned about cross-product coordination as the organization grew.

Agile 94

Agile Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Coaching 94

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.”. Of course, this is not an exhaustive list of roles in DevOps. a System Administrator in charge of cloud monitoring.

DevOps 96

DevOps Engineering Software Review Weak Development Team 96

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 after you successfully measure your workplace and employee productivity, if you find it to be extremely low, then you need to take action and do something about it. That’s insane. What is Workplace Productivity?

Weak Development Team 52

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

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JULY 11, 2019

While most think that leaders are “born,” Katie Womersley, VP of Engineering at Buffer, disagrees. Leaders and managers both require skills that can be taught, and developing those employees from within the company can be the most timely and economically efficient way to do so. I am VP of Engineering over there.

Engineering 58

Engineering Leadership Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE 58

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 after you successfully measure your workplace and employee productivity, if you find it to be extremely low, then you need to take action and do something about it. That’s insane.

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 after you successfully measure your workplace and employee productivity, if you find it to be extremely low, then you need to take action and do something about it. That’s insane.

Weak Development Team 52

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

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JUNE 20, 2019

For a short period of time, worked for the government doing web development and then actually started a consulting business in Atlanta where my main client was the Federal Government in Washington D.C. I had one full-time employee in one part-time employee and we did staff augmentation. Marcus: I do.

Engineering 75

Engineering Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Fractional VPE 75

Gitprime

AUGUST 15, 2019

As engineering managers and leaders, our job of course is to help our teams deliver value to the organization and its customers. Yet from a higher level, our role is to ensure that both engineers and teams continue to grow and develop. FIND OTHER OBJECTIVES TO COLLECT ALONG THE WAY.

Weak Development Team 45

Weak Development Team Engineering Development Part-Time VPE 45

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Lara: Of course there’s a donut in there, you know a little merit badge that says kept going because we got to celebrate the fact that this yeah. And when you said tools, of course, I started thinking about spreadsheets, and then I realized it’s a box. Marcus: Why did you feel this was the right time for this book?

CTO Coach 52

CTO Coach Coaching Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE 52

Stackery

MAY 9, 2019

Impostors syndrome: that perennial juggling act between vocational ambition and that sneaking suspicion that you’ll arrive at work on a Wednesday only to find your desk sold for parts, the room darkened, and a semicircle of coworkers with flashlights under their chins, serving you with a notarized document that reads “the jig is up”.

Software Review 40

Software Review Technical Review Part-Time VPE Serverless 40

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.” Being a good VP requires not getting lost in the weeds and risking losing sight of the bigger picture, even when it feels like there is a tantalizing opportunity for fast impact.

Part-Time VPE 98

Part-Time VPE Engineering Weak Development Team Energy 98