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Executive Engineering Advisory
One of the most expensive habits in software rarely looks expensive at the time. An engineer decides the standard, well-supported way of doing something is not clever enough and builds a custom solution instead. It feels like craftsmanship....
Continue readingWhen I was brought in to manage backend and platform engineering at Grand Canyon Education, the team said it was Agile. In practice it was running Agile theater on top of a command-and-control culture. In six months we doubled its velocity...
Continue readingEvery growing company eventually asks its engineering team to do something it has never done before: a new market, a new architecture, a migration under time pressure. How the team responds is rarely about raw talent. It is about whether th...
Continue readingWhen I joined ProcessMaker in 2018, I was the founding engineer for a product that did not exist yet. Four years later I was accountable for more than 60 engineers across three countries, and the company had raised a $45M Series A. This is...
Continue readingXsolla is a global video game commerce platform serving clients like Valve, Twitch, Ubisoft, Epic Games, and Roblox. As Director of Software Development, my mandate was to build a US-based engineering team from nothing, in six months, to su...
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