Honeycomb

JULY 12, 2023

VPs of Engineering often have a lot of influence over both company culture and policy, and the decisions our companies make ripple outside of the companies themselves. The whole tech industry would benefit from more perspectives in this role. A genuine joy in seeing teammates level up. Working across the stack.

Part-Time VPE 98

Part-Time VPE Engineering B2C Technical Review 98

Honeycomb

AUGUST 2, 2022

The energy is infectious. There’s also a strong debugging culture. There’s also a wonderful culture of documenting everything in living documents, so it’s easier to find things if I have questions. At some previous companies, demos were a semi-skippable event where you were unsure of the value of the feature.

Engineering 52

Engineering Technical Review Software Review Culture 52

Honeycomb

JANUARY 5, 2021

In March I wrote the following: Observability is a paradigm on which we can build a safe, healthy, sustainable future for the tech industry. A better tech industry is better for supporting this complex, interdependent society we live in. Though our deploy velocity remained the same, the engineering org has been far from stagnant.

Part-Time VPE 59

Part-Time VPE Technical Review Engineering Software Review 59

Netlify

MARCH 2, 2021

At Netlify, we use a diverse set of technologies, languages and paradigms to build our product. From scaffolding the application and the test suite, to installing all the dependencies and configuring the repository, you can find yourself spending precious time and energy before you even get to the point where you can start writing code.

Software Review 76

Software Review Systems Review Technical Review Testing 76

Honeycomb

JANUARY 5, 2021

In March I wrote the following: Observability is a paradigm on which we can build a safe, healthy, sustainable future for the tech industry. A better tech industry is better for supporting this complex, interdependent society we live in. Though our deploy velocity remained the same, the engineering org has been far from stagnant.

Part-Time VPE 52

Part-Time VPE Technical Review Engineering Software Review 52

Honeycomb

JULY 14, 2023

Departments or teams can burn through an infinite amount of energy re-litigating these decisions with stakeholders if the exec team doesn’t tell the story of these tradeoffs from above and make clear that the avenue for strategy concerns is mostly up, not sideways. However, I learned to leave myself more slack to respond to unexpected things.

Part-Time VPE 98

Part-Time VPE Engineering Weak Development Team Energy 98