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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. The whole tech industry would benefit from more perspectives in this role.

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Scaling Organizational Empathy With Box’s VPE, Saminda Wijegunawardena

Gitprime

In this Perspectives in Engineering interview series, engineering leaders talk about how to build, coach, and scale world-class technology teams. As a company scales, it’s inevitable that individuals will grow farther removed from other people, projects, and initiatives in the organization.

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Startups, if your CEO isn’t running your fundraising, you’re doing it wrong

TechCrunch

In my past as an investor and in my present as a pitch coach, I have come across a surprising number of companies where someone who’s not part of the founder team is out there trying to raise money for the company. Hire the right people to build the company.

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

Honeycomb

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.

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Scaling Engineering Teams from 5 to 500 and Beyond

Gitprime

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. The senior engineer is there to support, guide, and make sure the project goes well.

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Apiumhub supports Craft Conference one more year

Apiumhub

Listen to more than 70 speakers coming from the biggest companies like Ebay, Google, Spotify, IBM and NASA introducing you to some exciting topics, like: Software Design Open Source Security Architectural Design Service Mesh Apache APISIX. that can help companies work more effectively. Sponsors and Partners.

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Introducing Engineering Management to a Growing Organization

Gitprime

In this interview series, Engineering Leaders talk about how to build high performing teams. We grow so fast,” Nightingale says of tech companies, “and we’re often run by founders who have not themselves experienced great management. When it comes to org structure, use the stuff that we’ve been using for a long time.”.