Development Engineering Management Part-Time VPE 
Honeycomb
AUGUST 19, 2022
Or, the small crisis with engineering management. In 2018, Honeycomb co-founder & CTO Charity Majors wrote a blog post titled, “An Engineer’s Bill of Rights (and Responsibilities).” When it was originally posted, back in 2018, it was timely. I’m also no longer primarily a line manager myself.
Gitprime
SEPTEMBER 30, 2019
Saminda Wijegunawardena , VP of Engineering at Box, calls this increasing distance “abstraction.” Therefore, empathy truly is within a manager’s domain. This role doesn’t change whether an engineering org is 5, 500, or 5000 strong. We started hiring remote folks, and we wanted to reduce that abstraction,” he says.
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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. Why management matters. Hiring leaders in your organization.
Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts
JULY 11, 2019
There is an inherent difference between leaders and managers that is often overlooked. While most think that leaders are “born,” Katie Womersley, VP of Engineering at Buffer, disagrees. Katie’s journey into management. Transitioning others into management and bumps along the way. I am VP of Engineering over there.
James Shore
AUGUST 19, 2024
Back in April , I posted the new career ladder I was planning to introduce at OpenSesame, which I’ve joined as VP of Engineering. We rolled it out in July, so now’s a good time to share what we’ve learned so far. PDF) Culture Changes The purpose of the new career ladder is to help change the engineering culture at OpenSesame.
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. The technical project manager role was actually pretty new. Worked there.
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.
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