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How to Scale Engineering Processes w/ Twitter's VP of Engineering

Dzone - DevOps

Maria Gutierrez is the VP of Engineering for Strategy and Operations at Twitter. She joins a special livestream of the Dev Interrupted podcast to share her career journey, her strategies for sustainably scaling engineering teams and the three pillars of engineering processes.

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On Becoming a VP of Engineering, Part 1: The Path to VP

Honeycomb

This post is part of a short series about my experience in the VP of Engineering role at Honeycomb. In February of 2020, I was promoted from Director of Engineering to Honeycomb’s first VP of Engineering. Happily, all these things turned out to be true and are still true to this day.

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Why organizations should commit to innersource in 2020

Github

The company values transparency, especially on the engineering side, so that an engineer in Copenhagen can understand and leverage work happening in San Francisco. As Smale explains, “Our engineering culture is open and centered around teams owning services and being responsible for running them in production.”.

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Leading Remote and Distributed Engineering Teams – Top Takeaways from the Panel

Gitprime

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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Anything But Tech Debt

Honeycomb

If you ever find yourself in an intractable debate on tech debt investments, I encourage you to try one of the more precise labels for the work you’d like to do. Sometimes, using a label that speaks directly to the business value of a type of work can do wonders to help both sides find a way to move forward.

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Principal Engineer: role & responsibilities

Apiumhub

Also, after this event, we had a meeting with our Principal Engineer and software development team to discuss this topic as we noticed that in each company it is slightly different. So, in this article, you will find common patterns as well as our definition of Principal Engineer based on our experience.

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The Rise of the Front-End Developer

LaunchDarkly

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. Watch the full panel discussion below. Thank you both so much for joining us today.