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.

Part-Time VPE 98

Part-Time VPE Engineering Technical Review B2C 98

TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2022

Masar, who serves as Better Stack’s CEO, said that the funding will be put toward hiring with the goal of expanding the team from 14 to about 30 people by the end of the year. “We are software builders at heart — we’re making products we always wanted to use ourselves,” Masar said in an interview.

Part-Time VPE 247

Part-Time VPE Apparel Open Source Software Engineering 247

TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2022

For those of us who haven’t memorized economic frameworks: The Rule of 40 is a metric investors developed to gauge the health and growth potential of SaaS startups. According to its findings, SaaS founders should target at least 80% and aim to surpass 110%. Dear Sophie: Will a doctor get a green card faster than an engineer?

Technical Review 200

Technical Review Part-Time VPE Trends Fractional VPE 200

Gitprime

MAY 2, 2019

One of the primary reasons to build a distributed engineering organization is that a company is not limited by geographic boundaries. For the last ten years, Buriticá has successfully been building and scaling distributed engineering teams and Latin American open source software communities. I build teams that respect the craft.

Part-Time VPE 76

Part-Time VPE Engineering Fractional VPE Fractional CTO 76

Altexsoft

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

In the words of Ben Treynor Sloss, Google’s VP of engineering who coined the very term SRE , “it’s what happens when you ask a software engineer to design an operation function.”. Metrics are crucial. Treat operations as a software problem. SRE utilizes software engineering to solve operations problems.

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DevOps Engineering Software Review Weak Development Team 96

Gitprime

AUGUST 15, 2019

That was the subject of a webinar we held with Matt Greenberg (VP of Engineering at Credit Carma), Erica Stanley (Software Engineering Manager at SalesLoft), and Lara Hogan (founder of Wherewithall and author of the book Resilient Management ). FIND OTHER OBJECTIVES TO COLLECT ALONG THE WAY.

Weak Development Team 45

Weak Development Team Engineering Development Part-Time VPE 45

taos

JULY 18, 2017

Frankly, I don’t know a single CIO, CTO or VP of Engineering or Operations that would disagree with me. Just ask the many software engineers that engage in hack-a-thons every couple of months, only to find their ideas come to life within weeks…now that’s exciting! Public cloud is not cheaper!

Cloud 40

Cloud Part-Time VPE Data Center Technical Review 40