Honeycomb

JULY 12, 2023

VPs of Engineering often have a lot of influence over both company culture and policy, and the decisions our companies make ripple outside of the companies themselves. The whole tech industry would benefit from more perspectives in this role. A genuine joy in seeing teammates level up.

Part-Time VPE 98

Part-Time VPE Engineering Technical Review B2C 98

Netlify

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

As an engineer based in the EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa), I usually start my work day earlier than folks in the Pacific time zone. So I tend to get as much work done as possible and also review PRs in the afternoons and then reserve the evenings for meetings/syncs with my colleagues. Pairing sessions also help a lot too.

Engineering 52

Engineering Technical Review Software Review Systems Review 52

James Shore

JANUARY 10, 2025

Given that I couldnt give my CEO what he wanted without creating dysfunction in engineering, what could I give him? The CEO, chief product officer, chief technical officer, and I met a month later. I said, If we had the best product engineering organization in the world, what would it look like? This is a big cultural shift!

Engineering 141

Engineering Software Review Weak Development Team Agile 141

Honeycomb

JANUARY 5, 2021

In March I wrote the following: Observability is a paradigm on which we can build a safe, healthy, sustainable future for the tech industry. A better tech industry is better for supporting this complex, interdependent society we live in. Though our deploy velocity remained the same, the engineering org has been far from stagnant.

Part-Time VPE 59

Part-Time VPE Technical Review Engineering Software Review 59

Honeycomb

JANUARY 5, 2021

In March I wrote the following: Observability is a paradigm on which we can build a safe, healthy, sustainable future for the tech industry. A better tech industry is better for supporting this complex, interdependent society we live in. Though our deploy velocity remained the same, the engineering org has been far from stagnant.

Part-Time VPE 52

Part-Time VPE Technical Review Engineering Software Review 52

Honeycomb

JULY 14, 2023

This is particularly hard on engineering teams, where we always have to balance multiple priorities: security, reliability, performance, UX, shipping new features, iterating on existing features, internal developer experience, maintainability/tech debt, quality, scaling, etc.

Part-Time VPE 98

Part-Time VPE Engineering Weak Development Team Energy 98