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.

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Honeycomb

MAY 15, 2024

It’s through a combination of technical artifacts, organizational practices and policies, and pure gumption that they manage to maintain themselves through time. Resilience is an activity they perform, rather than a property attributable to the organization. They don’t take that achievement for granted.

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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. In retrospect, the most interesting transition along the whole journey for me was probably moving from managing only ICs to also managing managers.

Part-Time VPE 98

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Honeycomb

AUGUST 3, 2023

By setting a shared expectation up front for how services should perform, teams are then able to frame the need for scaling and reliability work in terms of risk to the SLO. Interested in reading more about engineering management? Read my article on Becoming a VP of Engineering.

Part-Time VPE 98

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Honeycomb

JANUARY 5, 2022

The overall theme is high-performing engineering teams are generally the ones that humanize the process. Fostering a healthy engineering culture. The two also dove a bit deeper into the topic of creating a culture of experimentation among your team. Engineering Manager, Slack . “It’s

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Honeycomb

JANUARY 5, 2021

Our existing deploy tooling and engineering culture made the transition to remote work go much more smoothly. Though our deploy velocity remained the same, the engineering org has been far from stagnant. In Q1 we promoted Emily Nakashima to VP of Engineering , and we hired two more engineering managers in Q4.

Part-Time VPE 59

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Netlify

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

What’s your favorite part about the engineering culture (or company culture) at Netlify? Being able to have honest 1:1s with my manager and seeing results come from it. During my tenure, I have been able to dive into areas that interested me and also added value to the company — performance and scalability.

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