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Leading Distributed Teams: Lessons from Managing Global Engineering Teams

Posted on Tue 15 April 2025 in Leadership • Tagged with job, leadership

Leading engineers from around the world has taught me how to balance asynchronous communication and decisive action. The right frameworks transform geographical challenges into strategic advantages for organizations seeking to leverage global talent and build resilient engineering cultures.


Technical Debt Management: A Strategic Approach

Posted on Tue 08 April 2025 in Leadership • Tagged with job, leadership

After navigating technical leadership roles across startups and established corporations, I've come to view technical debt as both inevitable and manageable. It's the leadership approach to this debt that often determines whether a company can maintain momentum or finds itself grinding to a halt.


Scaling Engineering Teams: From 5 to 50+ Without Losing Your Culture

Posted on Tue 01 April 2025 in Leadership • Tagged with job, leadership

Scaling engineering teams is about much more than just adding headcount. It's about creating sustainable growth that preserves the core elements of your culture while evolving systems to support a larger organization. Here are a few of my thoughts about the topic.


Failure of Management - Unlimited PTO

Posted on Mon 14 August 2023 in Leadership • Tagged with job, meta, leadership

Unlimited PTO is a perk more and more organization are offering their employees. Unfortunately, many managers and organization are managing this poorly and failing their employees. What does this management failure look like?


What should a software engineering interview look like?

Posted on Thu 06 July 2023 in Leadership • Tagged with job, meta, leadership

I've interviewed a lot of engineers at various stages in their careers. I've utilized existing interview processes, built new ones and improved upon all of those. What do I think an ideal interview process would look like? Read on for details.


ChatGPT is here - Use that to stop asking LeetCode questions during interviews

Posted on Thu 15 December 2022 in Technical Solutions • Tagged with job, leadership, job search, chatgpt, ai interviews

ChatGPT's availability and ability to answer basic questions should end LeetCode use in software engineering interviews. Right?


Talking about rejection in job searches

Posted on Mon 24 October 2022 in Jobs • Tagged with job, meta, job search

Rejection is part of the job search. But, it's done so poorly that candidates have awful experiences. What does a current job search look like?


Upload your resume, then re-enter it to apply for this job

Posted on Tue 13 September 2022 in Jobs • Tagged with job, meta, job search

Talking through my current role search - How often do I need to re-enter my resume information after uploading?


What Job Source is using which ATS?

Posted on Tue 06 September 2022 in Jobs • Tagged with job, meta, job search

Talking through my current role search - Which Job Source is using which ATS?


I am looking for an engineering leadership role

Posted on Thu 18 August 2022 in Jobs • Tagged with job, meta, leadership, job search

After a recent layoff, I'm looking for a new role