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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 Scale Engineering Processes w/ Twitter's VP of Engineering

Dzone - DevOps

Maria Gutierrez is the VP of Engineering for Strategy and Operations at Twitter. She joins a special livestream of the Dev Interrupted podcast to share her career journey, her strategies for sustainably scaling engineering teams and the three pillars of engineering processes.

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Anything But Tech Debt

Honeycomb

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. Is the term part of why these conversations are always so hard?

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Why organizations should commit to innersource in 2020

Github

As enterprises increase their investments in open source, they’re also looking behind the code at new ways for their engineering teams to work together quickly, globally, and at scale. As Smale explains, “Our engineering culture is open and centered around teams owning services and being responsible for running them in production.”.

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2020: The Year Bee-hind Us

Honeycomb

I believe this human-centered approach is a big part of what’s helped us attract so many amazing new hires. We’ve doubled the size of the company this year, with growth on all fronts: engineering, product, design, marketing, sales. Engineering. But we’re still small and mighty, punching way above our weight class.

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2020: The Year Bee-hind Us

Honeycomb

I believe this human-centered approach is a big part of what’s helped us attract so many amazing new hires. We’ve doubled the size of the company this year, with growth on all fronts: engineering, product, design, marketing, sales. Engineering. But we’re still small and mighty, punching way above our weight class.

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Leading Remote and Distributed Engineering Teams – Top Takeaways from the Panel

Gitprime

Leaders of distributed engineering teams shouldn’t have to work up solutions to these problems from scratch. So we held a panel discussion with three of today’s top engineering leaders to discuss approaches and lessons learned in building, growing, and maintaining remote and distributed teams.