Honeycomb

JULY 12, 2023

Nonetheless, I think it’s useful to share what I can about my experience in the hope that it might encourage others to seriously consider this role, especially those from backgrounds, identities, and genders poorly represented in the VP of Engineering ranks today. The whole tech industry would benefit from more perspectives in this role.

Part-Time VPE 98

Part-Time VPE Engineering B2C Technical Review 98

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

JUNE 26, 2020

What was the first programming language you, you ever recorded in and you still use that? And for the first few months, I was just doing things like discussing different bits and pieces about programming and all I had was a paper to write different things on. Uh, so yeah for me the first programming language is Pascal.

Internet 200

Internet Engineering Architecture Network 200

LaunchDarkly

JUNE 12, 2020

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. All focused on trying to level up Indeed’s front end engineering capabilities. The technical project manager role was actually pretty new. “I want to make video games.”

Weak Development Team 52

Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Development Engineering 52

TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

Framed by Kalanick as his “revenge business” after his previous P2P startup Scour was sued into oblivion for copyright infringement, Red Swoosh would be the precursor for Expensify’s future culture and ethos. How a band of P2P hackers planted the seeds of a unique expense management giant.

Innovation 249

Innovation Internet Engineering Engineering Culture 249

Honeycomb

JULY 14, 2023

For example, right as I was transitioning into this role, I did inhumane things with my own schedule to quickly build out our SOC 2 and HIPAA compliance programs at the request of our go-to-market leaders.

Part-Time VPE 98

Part-Time VPE Engineering Weak Development Team Energy 98

LeanEssays

JULY 14, 2019

He describes “some surprising theories about software engineering”: I discuss these theories in terms of two fundamentally different development styles, the "cathedral" model of most of the commercial world versus the "bazaar" model of the Linux world. If you give software engineers manual work, their first instinct is to automate it.

Software Review 91

Software Review Software Engineering Continuous Delivery Technical Review 91

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Open Source and a Culture of Sharing. The rise of open source software in the 1990s has undoubtedly transformed IT. While vendor lock-in is still a very real issue, the availability of open source software has done a lot to liberate IT. Remember: an attacker only needs to find one vulnerability that escaped your attention.

Open Source 80

Open Source Engineering Culture Weak Development Team Fractional CTO 80