James Shore

JANUARY 10, 2025

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. And, as a fully remote company, we have a lot of flexibility in where we hire. Not possible. It cant be done.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Founder and CEO David Zamir is not actually an Uber alum, but one of his first employees, VP of Engineering Oliver Nicholas, is an early Uber engineer, and the company has also found a lot of traction of Uber drivers this year, after many found themselves out of work after the chilling effect that the pandemic had on ridesharing. .”

Part-Time VPE 249

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Gitprime

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Saminda Wijegunawardena , VP of Engineering at Box, calls this increasing distance “abstraction.” Wijegunawardena recalls that ten or more years ago, when Box was a growing company, it could not spring for the high-end video chat systems for remote engineers, so they used Google Hangouts instead. “We Use high-touch onboarding.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

MARCH 20, 2025

Their offerings include a comprehensive suite of human capital management (HCM) solutions for payroll and tax, HR compliance services, time tracking, 401(k) plans, and more. As we embarked on our journey at Asure to integrate generative AI into our solutions, finding the right partner was crucial. Yasmine Rodriguez, CTO of Asure.

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Honeycomb

AUGUST 19, 2022

There was fresh momentum around the idea that engineering ICs should be able to progress up a dedicated technical career ladder—one that didn’t top out where management levels began, or push ICs on an up-or-out path into management. These constraints incentivized managers to think hard about how to retain and grow their best senior engineers.

Engineering 145

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CIO

AUGUST 31, 2023

As VP of Engineering, Burke now leads multiple web and mobile development teams, as well as Discover’s customer delivery channels. In his current role, Burke is committed to giving back and mentoring other engineers as they grow their careers. I could not only grow my skills but also contribute to results at Discover.

Training 145

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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. I have a great partnership with our recruiting teams.

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Honeycomb

MARCH 6, 2020

I am delighted to announce that we have a new VP of engineering: our own Emily Nakashima , formerly director of engineering (formerly manager, formerly engineer). First, I’d write a post if we had hired a new VP of engineering, so I should write one about having grown one from within.

Engineering 75

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Altexsoft

MARCH 23, 2020

CTO vs CIO vs VP of Engineering vs Technical director. They are often confused with CIOs, VPs of Engineering, or Technical Directors. VP of Engineering – tech team management. If CTO is an enthusiast, then VP of Engineering is a great manager. Schedule and perform the release.

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Honeycomb

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Committed to timely service, ShipHero recognizes that the seamless performance of its software is paramount to customer satisfaction. To maintain this high standard, the development team needs the right data at their fingertips to quickly find and solve problems as they occur.

Software 80

Software Part-Time VPE Retail DevOps 80

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.”. Conferences aren’t telling CxOs about the virtues of data engineering. We have conferences on data engineering. That’s great.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

JULY 2, 2024

It relies on the HarfBuzz font shaping engine, which uses Wasm. Researchers are finding that conversations with an AI can help to dispel beliefs in conspiracy theories. It claims performance similar to GPT-4o and Gemini 1.5. It claims performance similar to GPT-4o, at 1/100th the size. Everything runs locally.

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Apiumhub

JULY 16, 2019

Her preferred coaching method is working side-by-side with testers and teams to help them understand their problems and find good ways to deliver better business value. She splits her time between writing, speaking, teaching, helping teams, and working with her own team at ePlan Services Inc. LinkedIn. 8 – Maria Gutierrez.

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Honeycomb

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

I am delighted to announce that we have a new VP of engineering: our own Emily Nakashima , formerly director of engineering (formerly manager, formerly engineer). First, I’d write a post if we had hired a new VP of engineering, so I should write one about having grown one from within.

Engineering 52

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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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Infinidat

MARCH 28, 2024

You can find out right now why a slew of Global Fortune 500 enterprises deploy Infinidat enterprise storage solutions, including our award-winning InfiniBox™ SSA II all-flash system, InfiniBox® hybrid, and InfiniGuard®, supported by our unparalleled white glove service.

Storage 69

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James Shore

MAY 5, 2024

In my new role as VP of Engineering , there was one question I was dreading more than any other: “How are you measuring productivity?” I need to be accountable for engineering productivity. With my XP plans and the XP coaches I’ve hired, it’s totally doable. I can’t fault the question. It’s value-add capacity.

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Honeycomb

OCTOBER 10, 2024

To dive deeper into this topic, Emily Nakashima, VP of Engineering, and Charity Majors, Co-Founder and CTO, sat down to discuss the current state of frontend observability , common misconceptions, and how it’s changing the way developers work. Emily: Right, and it’s not just about finding bugs. And the other challenge?

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GreenBar

OCTOBER 26, 2020

He was losing sleep about his company’s challenges arising from: Poor vendor management A hodgepodge of tech that wouldn’t scale Inability to keep up with new leads Stagnant R&D Lack of focus A week later I found myself in a similar conversation, this time with a VP of Engineering looking for an outside perspective.

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Honeycomb

AUGUST 3, 2023

By setting a shared expectation up front for how services should perform, teams are then able to frame the need for scaling and reliability work in terms of risk to the SLO. 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.

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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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Gitprime

APRIL 13, 2019

asks Randy Shoup , the VP of Engineering at WeWork. Shoup himself has worked as an engineering leader with several companies of various sizes during periods of intense scaling over the last three decades. If you’re not able to talk to your business partners and explain, ‘Here’s why the system isn’t performing well.

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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 also puts much attention to tracking results, making measurable performance improvements, and automating operations tasks. What is DevOps?

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James Shore

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Performance and morale decline. Feelings of chaos decrease, morale improves, and performance climbs. Performance has stabilized at a higher level than before the change, and continues to increase gradually as people experiment with further small changes. If not, you can hire consultants. Some days are good; some are bad.

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Netlify

JANUARY 20, 2021

Here’s a visual of Netlify’s career advancement tracks at this time. The early years of an engineer’s path is focused on deepening their technical experience. Once an individual contributor achieves the senior level and is a strong performer, they can choose to try out the management track or remain on the technical path.

Engineering 52

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Gitprime

DECEMBER 31, 2018

GitPrime elevates engineering leadership with objective data. In this interview series, Engineering Leaders talk about how to build high performing teams. Nightingale recently sat down with GitPrime’s CEO, Travis Kimmel , for an episode on Software Engineering Radio. Hiring leaders in your organization.

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James Shore

OCTOBER 15, 2020

In addition, Agile practices often perform double- and triple-duty, solving multiple software development problems simultaneously and supporting each other in clever and surprising ways. Start with an influential manager you trust and recruit them as an ally. The VP liked what I had to say. They may try to recruit you.

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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. And so we’ve seen other topics as well steadily increasing performance.

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Apiumhub

MAY 10, 2022

Craft Conference will cover: Language agnostic methods, best practices (tdd, bdd, ddd, ci, cd, security, performance, service oriented architecture etc.) that can be successfully leveraged by individual engineers. To achieve this goal from year to year organizers invite a really unique speaker line-up. Check out the speakers!

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Tenable

MAY 3, 2024

1 - Verizon DBIR: Hackers feasting on unpatched vulnerabilities This year’s edition of Verizon’s “Data Breach Investigations Report” (DBIR) is out, and a key finding is that attackers tripled down on exploiting vulnerabilities to gain an initial foothold in victims’ networks. 1, 2022 to Oct.

Programming 75

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Honeycomb

MARCH 1, 2023

You can compare tiny differences between multiple traces coming through your microservices-based applications every day to pinpoint areas that are affecting performance. Today, thanks to distributed tracing with Honeycomb, the HelloFresh team spends less time on maintenance, and has reduced the number of tools they use.

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Honeycomb

JANUARY 5, 2021

I believe this human-centered approach is a big part of what’s helped us attract so many amazing new hires. We’ve doubled the size of the company this year, with growth on all fronts: engineering, product, design, marketing, sales. Though our deploy velocity remained the same, the engineering org has been far from stagnant.

Part-Time VPE 59

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Codegiant

JULY 8, 2021

This means out of the nine-hour shift, you’ll find an average employee being productive for less than three hours. And after you successfully measure your workplace and employee productivity, if you find it to be extremely low, then you need to take action and do something about it. That’s insane. What is Workplace Productivity?

Weak Development Team 52

Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Software Review Project Management 52

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JULY 11, 2019

While most think that leaders are “born,” Katie Womersley, VP of Engineering at Buffer, disagrees. Leaders and managers both require skills that can be taught, and developing those employees from within the company can be the most timely and economically efficient way to do so. I am VP of Engineering over there.

Engineering 58

Engineering Leadership Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE 58

Codegiant

JULY 8, 2021

This means out of the nine-hour shift, you’ll find an average employee being productive for less than three hours. And after you successfully measure your workplace and employee productivity, if you find it to be extremely low, then you need to take action and do something about it. That’s insane.

Weak Development Team 52

Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Software Review Project Management 52

Codegiant

JULY 8, 2021

This means out of the nine-hour shift, you’ll find an average employee being productive for less than three hours. And after you successfully measure your workplace and employee productivity, if you find it to be extremely low, then you need to take action and do something about it. That’s insane.

Weak Development Team 52

Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Software Review Project Management 52

iTexico

AUGUST 19, 2021

While billions of people are finding products and services through mobile browsers on their smartphones, they now also access mobile apps on a regular basis. As on-the-go browsing increases, it is important for every IT director and VP of Engineering to create a succinct mobile development strategy. Performance.

Mobile 52

Mobile Software Review Part-Time VPE Agile 52