O'Reilly Media - Ideas

APRIL 9, 2019

They’re hiring data scientists expecting them to be data engineers. The company goes on an exhaustive search to find the best data scientist ever. We hired you to do data science.”. If you only look at the cursory message, it’s all about data science and hiring data scientists. Let’s call this data scientist Bob.

Data Engineering 112

Data Engineering Engineering Data Technical Review 112

Gitprime

DECEMBER 31, 2018

In this interview series, Engineering Leaders talk about how to build high performing teams. Johnathan Nightingale has seen first-hand how powerful a solid management structure can be for growing organizations. “We Nightingale recently sat down with GitPrime’s CEO, Travis Kimmel , for an episode on Software Engineering Radio.

Engineering Management 40

Engineering Management Engineering Organization Part-Time VPE 40

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.”. It’s often viewed as a generalization of key SRE methods so that they can be used by a wider range of organizations.

DevOps 96

DevOps Engineering Software Review Weak Development Team 96

Netlify

JANUARY 20, 2021

As such, the Netlify engineering organization has 2 clear and distinct tracks: you can advance into management, or you can advance as an individual contributor. It’s a strength to the organization and to individuals to have these varying experiences and responsibilities. Senior Engineers on the team are strong contributors.

Engineering 52

Engineering Part-Time VPE Development CTO Coach 52

Apiumhub

MAY 10, 2022

Craft Conference is an event where any type of engineers, team leaders, agile coaches, engineering managers, executives/founders, UX/product people could learn a lot. To achieve this goal from year to year organizers invite a really unique speaker line-up. that can be successfully leveraged by individual engineers. .

Conference 59

Conference Software Review Technical Review Systems Review 59

Gitprime

AUGUST 15, 2019

As engineering managers and leaders, our job of course is to help our teams deliver value to the organization and its customers. Yet from a higher level, our role is to ensure that both engineers and teams continue to grow and develop. How do you create a tangible sense of growth for engineers between promotions?

Weak Development Team 45

Weak Development Team Engineering Development Part-Time VPE 45

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. But as the engineering manager there, I grew a team from zero. Yoz Grahame: Yeah.

Weak Development Team 52

Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Development Engineering 52

taos

JULY 18, 2017

Frankly, I don’t know a single CIO, CTO or VP of Engineering or Operations that would disagree with me. While this is doable for some larger organizations, when multiplied across multiple regions and as many time zones, the daunting task becomes untenable. Public cloud is not cheaper! There, I said it!

Cloud 40

Cloud Part-Time VPE Data Center Technical Review 40

James Shore

JANUARY 10, 2025

Software engineering productivity cant be measured. My favorite discussion of the topic is Robert Austins, who wrote Measuring and Managing Performance in Organizations. This is a talk about what you do, as VP of Engineering, when somebody asks for the impossible. So I told the truth. Not possible. It cant be done.

Engineering 141

Engineering Software Review Weak Development Team Agile 141

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

AUGUST 13, 2020

In our fifth episode of Breaking 404 , we caught up with Monica Bajaj, Senior Director of Engineering, Workday to hear out the different biases that exist in tech roles across organizations and how difficult it can get for a woman to reach a senior position, especially in tech. Most of the organizations face this kind of tech debt.

Technical Review 100

Technical Review Part-Time VPE Software Review Weak Development Team 100

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Marcus: Why did you feel this was the right time for this book? I was finding myself in coaching call after coaching call talking about the same challenges. And I remember feeling that way, at every stage of management, you know not just as a new line manager, but when I became a manager of managers, and then when I became a VPE.

CTO Coach 52

CTO Coach Coaching Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE 52

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JUNE 20, 2019

For a short period of time, worked for the government doing web development and then actually started a consulting business in Atlanta where my main client was the Federal Government in Washington D.C. I had one full-time employee in one part-time employee and we did staff augmentation. We were pretty flat at the time.

Engineering 75

Engineering Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Fractional VPE 75