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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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.

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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 structured presentation of information, and building systems that can help you with that.

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James Shore

JANUARY 10, 2025

This is a talk about what you do, as VP of Engineering, when somebody asks for the impossible. Not because wed be perfect, but because wed go out of our way to keep them involved and informed. Wed be the engine of a profitable and growing business. Theyre only expected to have classroom engineering skills.

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Honeycomb

JANUARY 5, 2021

Seeing other people’s status allows coworkers to make informed decisions before interrupting someone who’s struggling. I believe this human-centered approach is a big part of what’s helped us attract so many amazing new hires. Though our deploy velocity remained the same, the engineering org has been far from stagnant.

Part-Time VPE 59

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Honeycomb

JANUARY 5, 2021

Seeing other people’s status allows coworkers to make informed decisions before interrupting someone who’s struggling. I believe this human-centered approach is a big part of what’s helped us attract so many amazing new hires. 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

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.

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