James Shore

APRIL 27, 2024

I’ve been quiet lately, and that’s because I’ve joined OpenSesame as Vice President of Engineering. It’s been a fascinating opportunity to rebuild an engineering organization from the inside, and I’m loving every minute. I’m not sure if I’m allowed to say how many engineers we have, so let’s just say “lots,” but not “tons.”

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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. Not the plan I didn’t join Honeycomb with the goal of becoming an engineering executive.

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Netlify

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

When we talk with engineering candidates, it’s pretty easy to explain what our frontend and Node.js But did you know that a big chunk of Netlify’s engineering team is in the backend? Meet some of our backend engineers… Bryan Mikaelian. Being able to have honest 1:1s with my manager and seeing results come from it.

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Honeycomb

AUGUST 3, 2023

Tech debt is usually one of the most fraught topics on engineering teams. Engineers often feel they aren’t allowed enough time to address tech debt. Product partners wonder why engineers spend so much time working on it—or at least talking about it. How will you make sure engineers adopt the tool successfully?

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Honeycomb

JANUARY 5, 2021

We’ve doubled the size of the company this year, with growth on all fronts: engineering, product, design, marketing, sales. Engineering. Each new engineering hire has had an impressive demo within weeks of starting, with their changes merged into our main branch and deployed to dogfood or prod. So many wins in 2020.

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Honeycomb

JANUARY 5, 2021

We’ve doubled the size of the company this year, with growth on all fronts: engineering, product, design, marketing, sales. Engineering. Each new engineering hire has had an impressive demo within weeks of starting, with their changes merged into our main branch and deployed to dogfood or prod. So many wins in 2020.

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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. Engineering Manager, Slack . “It’s It’s hard to have one piece of practical advice because a team of engineers is a living, breathing entity.

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