Cloudera

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

He was a bit nervous but we had practiced 3 times before he was ‘on stage’ in front of hundreds of people and the zoom meeting turned to him. During the development of Operational Database and Replication Manager, I kept telling folks across the team it has to be “so simple that a 10 year old can demo it”.

Enterprise 93

Enterprise Software UI/UX Engineering Culture 93

Netflix Tech

JUNE 1, 2021

The blend of creativity and a strong engineering culture at Netflix really appealed to me. The culture was also something that piqued my interest. I was pretty skeptical of Netflix’s culture memo at first. I have been primarily involved in the payments space.

Data Engineering 55

Data Engineering Engineering Data Culture 55

Honeycomb

JULY 12, 2023

While Charity has deep experience in the domains of infrastructure & operations, databases, and backend engineering, I come originally from design, frontend, and product engineering, and I take a particular joy in collaborating with product management and ux design.

Part-Time VPE 98

Part-Time VPE Engineering B2C Technical Review 98

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. We now have a 1:2 ratio of product managers to designers, which is super unusual. No Q4 code freezes for us.

Part-Time VPE 59

Part-Time VPE Technical Review Engineering Software Review 59

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. We now have a 1:2 ratio of product managers to designers, which is super unusual. No Q4 code freezes for us.

Part-Time VPE 52

Part-Time VPE Technical Review Engineering Software Review 52

Altexsoft

MARCH 3, 2023

In this post, we explore the concept of cross-functional teams in product development , discuss the benefits and challenges of running a cross-functional team, and give practical recommendations for building it. In the meantime, a developer can work with a QA engineer to identify and fix the bugs or issues that pop up during testing.

Examples 52

Examples UI/UX Development Technical Review 52

LaunchDarkly

JANUARY 14, 2020

I’m kind of like this until like three in the morning and I don’t like going to meetings and I don’t like scheduling them when they’re hierarchical. I like that kind of meeting. We came up with the work and the manager kind of sat back and let the ICs do the thing. I like to make room for that processes.

Weak Development Team 10

Weak Development Team DevOps Testing Agile 10