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On Becoming a VP of Engineering, Part 1: The Path to VP

Honeycomb

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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How to Effectively Lead High-Performing Engineering Teams

Honeycomb

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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What it’s like to be a backend engineer at Netlify

Netlify

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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Establishing and Enabling a Center of Production Excellence

Honeycomb

This is analogous to safety departments in organizations that attempt to do resilience engineering. We’ll want to track these things to evaluate the efficacy of the institution, since they’ll provide a better signal about how the organization is doing than a lossy metric like the number of incidents.