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TechCrunch
JULY 13, 2021
Expensify is an SF-founded (now Portland-based), decentralized startup focused on building expense reporting and analytics software for companies and CFOs. That’s peculiar, because the duo honestly couldn’t be more different. New York-based NS1 designs highly redundant DNS and internet traffic performance tools for web applications.
James Shore
APRIL 27, 2024
I’ve been quiet lately, and that’s because I’ve joined OpenSesame as Vice President of Engineering. It’s been a fascinating opportunity to rebuild an engineering organization from the inside, and I’m loving every minute. Enough that I don’t do any coding myself, and the managers that report to me don’t have time to do much either.)
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James Shore
AUGUST 19, 2024
PDF) Culture Changes The purpose of the new career ladder is to help change the engineering culture at OpenSesame. Now it also covers the advanced titles—Staff Engineer for the engineer track and three Engineering Manager titles for the management track. Here’s the latest version of the ladder.
Honeycomb
MAY 15, 2024
Software is in a crisis. It’s through a combination of technical artifacts, organizational practices and policies, and pure gumption that they manage to maintain themselves through time. Software is both a product of and part of a sociotechnical system. This is nothing new. They don’t take that achievement for granted.
Honeycomb
JULY 12, 2023
I was curious about moving up the engineering management ladder eventually, but I assumed a VP opportunity would be out of reach for a long time, if ever. I find basically all business problems and domains within a software company interesting, and I have always loved that startups let you see how all the pieces fit together.
Honeycomb
AUGUST 3, 2023
Rework Rework or refactoring is probably the category most associated with “tech debt” in software engineering. Debt is still a useful concept While tech debt is rarely a helpful label when making the argument to pay down debt, the notion of “debt” remains a useful one in software engineering.
James Shore
JANUARY 10, 2025
Software engineering productivity cant be measured. Our software would be easy to modify and maintain. We use Extreme Programming as our model of how to develop software. We have a bunch of engineers who dont have the XP mindset. Our engineering managers are at the forefront of that effort.
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