James Shore

APRIL 27, 2024

Enough that I don’t do any coding myself, and the managers that report to me don’t have time to do much either.) What I’m really doing is changing the engineering culture at OpenSesame. Culture doesn’t change easily. Staff Engineers Staff Engineers make a difference to the performance of Engineering as a whole.

Software Engineering 75

Software Engineering Engineering Technical Advisors Software 75

Honeycomb

JULY 12, 2023

I was curious about moving up the engineering management ladder eventually, but I assumed a VP opportunity would be out of reach for a long time, if ever. I had enough experience at early-stage startups to know that, if the company is successful, you’ll probably do a whole host of things as the company moves through different phases.

Part-Time VPE 98

Part-Time VPE Engineering B2C Technical Review 98

LaunchDarkly

JUNE 12, 2020

Prior to taking on the tactical project manager role, I was in a senior engineering manager role. The technical project manager role was actually pretty new. But as the engineering manager there, I grew a team from zero. A team of me to a team of about somewhere between 20 and 25 software engineers.

Weak Development Team 52

Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Development Engineering 52