Gitprime

MARCH 13, 2019

Every high-growth engineering organization eventually needs to address the challenges around restructuring teams, maintaining a productive culture, building resilient systems, and adjusting engineering processes. Where do you put the contracts in place? Davis is a self-described architect. Where do you put the APIs?

Part-Time VPE 58

Part-Time VPE Engineering Weak Development Team Fractional VPE 58

Honeycomb

AUGUST 19, 2022

My current role as VP of Engineering has me managing a few senior ICs, but I am mostly managing other managers and directors now. These cultural changes that have led us to shift our expectations for managers have traveled from the bottom up. Engineering manager’s Bill of Rights.

Engineering 145

Engineering Part-Time VPE CTO Coach Engineering Management 145

Apiumhub

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

John is a consultant and helps companies with Devops, Puppet, Docker, Kubernetes, etc. Helen works as the head of DevOps practice at Ranger4, an organization that helps companies adopt and embrace a DevOps culture. Elisabeth Hendrickson spends her time embroiled in the DevOps culture at Pivotal, where she is the VP of Engineering.

DevOps 72

DevOps Part-Time VPE Handbook Fractional VPE 72

Gitprime

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Saminda Wijegunawardena , VP of Engineering at Box, calls this increasing distance “abstraction.” This role doesn’t change whether an engineering org is 5, 500, or 5000 strong. Those are opportunities you can create to stretch engineers,” he says. Develop a means of cultural acknowledgment.

Part-Time VPE 45

Part-Time VPE Fractional VPE Weak Development Team Culture 45

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. At Raw Signal Group , Nightingale conducts leadership and management training with hundreds of fast-growing tech companies. Culture is set at the line manager level.

Engineering Management 40

Engineering Management Engineering Part-Time VPE Organization 40

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.

Engineering 75

Engineering Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Technical Advisors 75

Battery Ventures

APRIL 8, 2019

It can be daunting to trust a challenging and high-stakes process to an outside consultant. A former boss of mine was a recruiter who only did VP of engineering and CTO searches. A recruiter working on contingency can’t afford to do as much in-depth work on your search as a retained consultant.

Part-Time VPE 40

Part-Time VPE Recruiting Fractional VPE Fractional CTO 40