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From Junior to Staff - What's my role?

Jan 29, 2025

From Junior to Staff - What's my actual job?

Slides and speaker notes from a recent talk I gave at a local meetup. This contains the abstract, slides, and speaker notes.
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My Engineering Leadership Recommended Reading List

Dec 7, 2024

My Engineering Leadership Recommended Reading List

I was on the Compressed.fm podcast the other day and was asked for my recommended reading list for engineering leaders/managers. I've been recommending these to a lot of people recently so I threw together my list to share out. I hope you enjoy some of these!
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Challenges of the SWE Interview Process

Jan 1, 2024

Challenges of the SWE Interview Process

The SWE interview process has always been riddled with challenges. Specifically, how we approach technically validating a candidate continues to be a struggle. These are my thoughts on that process and where I hope to see the industry move.
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Performing a Layoff with Empathy

Sep 5, 2023

Performing a Layoff with Empathy

My team had to perform a layoff recently. There were several lessons and some interesting insights I gained from the situation. In this post, I'll discuss some of the lessons I learned in handling this layoff and how my organization's leaders did their best to treat everyone humanely.
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How I pick my web technology stack? Workflow diagram of content described in the article.

Nov 28, 2022

How I pick my web technology stack?

In this post, I explore how I make technology decisions based on use cases and what technologies I think are best suited towards solving the problem.
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This Dot Git Strategies for Working on Teams

Sep 1, 2022

Git Strategies for Working on Teams

This is a write up on my thoughts relating to how teams should best utilize git for their needs to have an effective collaborative work environment.
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