Honeycomb

JULY 12, 2023

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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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2022

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. Whatever you do, don’t run out of money.

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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.

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

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Apiumhub

MAY 10, 2022

Craft Conference is an event where any type of engineers, team leaders, agile coaches, engineering managers, executives/founders, UX/product people could learn a lot. Take a tour in our video gallery, where you’ll find a wealth of positive feedback from sponsors, attendees and speakers: Video. . Sponsors and Partners.

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Gitprime

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Before transitioning into coaching and consulting, he was the VP of Firefox for Mozilla through a period of intense turmoil (during which he helped build and launch the first Firefox offerings on Android and iPhone). Nightingale recently sat down with GitPrime’s CEO, Travis Kimmel , for an episode on Software Engineering Radio.

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Gitprime

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

In this Perspectives in Engineering interview series, engineering leaders talk about how to build, coach, and scale world-class technology teams. Saminda Wijegunawardena , VP of Engineering at Box, calls this increasing distance “abstraction.” Create intimacy for both distributed and co-located teams.

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