Honeycomb

JULY 12, 2023

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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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. Make the effort, whatever tools you have. The effort matters more than the tools used to implement the effort, as well. Well, they have a lot more data.

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Honeycomb

AUGUST 3, 2023

Tool chain investments Tool chain investments sound like they should be easy to pitch. Tools make us more productive, and everyone wants more productive engineers, right? But in reality, getting a solid return on investment from bringing in a new tool or an existing one can be a challenge. What’s a payback period?

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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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Apiumhub

MAY 10, 2022

It combines talk sessions, workshops and a hackathon where attendees can learn about the latest tools, methods and practices of software craft. Craft can help companies to understand how important it is to invest in the way they develop: not just into engineering but into the whole value generation process. Sponsors and Partners.

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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. I am VP of Engineering over there. We’re currently 90 folks in the company overall, 35 in engineering. Episode 11.

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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. Prior to taking on the tactical project manager role, I was in a senior engineering manager role.

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