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On Becoming a VP of Engineering, Part 1: The Path to VP

Honeycomb

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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An Engineering Manager’s Bill of Rights (and Responsibilities)

Honeycomb

In 2018, Honeycomb co-founder & CTO Charity Majors wrote a blog post titled, “An Engineer’s Bill of Rights (and Responsibilities).” The software engineering community was rethinking some long-held ideas about engineering career paths. We’ve recently updated and reposted it. This is good.

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The Unvarnished Truth of being a Woman in Tech

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

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.

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Anything But Tech Debt

Honeycomb

I created a visualization of the major types of engineering work I saw our teams complete in a quarter: It’s easy to quibble with the specific labels and the categories I’ve stuck them under, and in another organization these might be the wrong set or the wrong categories. Struggling to negotiate time for tech debt?

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Introducing Engineering Management to a Growing Organization

Gitprime

GitPrime elevates engineering leadership with objective data. 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 Why management matters.

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Engineering Career Development at Netlify

Netlify

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.

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20 influential women in software development

Apiumhub

Her mission is to bring agile joy to the software testing world and testing joy to the agile development world. Her experience includes developing business and retail applications, back-end processes, software tools, travel industry software, and financial applications. LinkedIn. 8 – Maria Gutierrez. 15 – Bridget Kromhout .