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Scaling for Small and Medium Technology Companies

I’ve noticed many articles, books and blog posts for Technology Leadership / Management are written people who now or recently…

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Software Engineering Leadership

Software Engineer leadership is where you lead/manage a number of software engineers, directly or via another manager(s). Your title could…

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Leadership by Example

This blog post is a continuation from a previous one called Leading Leaders “We must be the change we wish…

Scaling for Small and Medium Technology Companies

27 Apr 20234 May 2023

I've noticed many articles, books and blog posts for Technology Leadership / Management are written people who now or recently worked in Big Tech (Maybe they have more time and…

Change Management…

Ownership in Small and Medium Technology companies – Part 1

10 May 20232 Jun 2023

This post is part of a series on Scaling Small and Medium Technology companies. For each of the topics that I explore in this series, I will start with a…

Pax Unplugged December 2022

30 Jan 202330 Jan 2023

Summary If you are a board gamer you should check out Pax Unplugged. Also there was a lot of good food in Philadelphia. RPGs were most overbooked by a LOT,…

We are humans not resources

2 Nov 20216 Nov 2021

I strive to never refer to another Human as a resource. I see this as diminishing another human. It encourages the use of humans as cogs in a factory, or…

Career Management

Becoming a CTO

26 Feb 20212 Jan 2023

Getting to be an actual Chief Technology Officer for me has being about standing on shoulders of so many engineers who have coached me, mentored me, educated me, listened to…

A year at SpotHero leading Engineering PT 5 – COVID-19

27 May 202027 May 2020

Now Covid-19 -> Not Scaling March 2020 -> Throughout the whole US Parking sector, revenue dropped by 90% due to COVID-19 (Stay at Home Orders/WFH). As an Executive, we wrote…

Leading Engineering @ Spothero – product

27 May 202011 Jan 2023

Product May 2019 We are a two sided marketplace - Consumers on one side (Parkers) and Operators (Owners/management of Parking facilities) on the other We were not Product led as…

leading Engineering@ SpotHero – Technology

27 May 202011 Jan 2023

Technology May 2019 The SpotHero monolith is Python/Django The Parking Panda monolith is c#/.net (SpotHero acquired Parking Panda in Spring 2017) We were extracting core functionality from our monolith to…

leading Engineering@ SpotHero- People

27 May 202011 Jan 2023

People- May 2019 The Product and Engineering was about 50 people Offices in Chicago HQ, Baltimore and a couple remote WFH Most Engineering Managers had over 10-14 engineers to serve…

leading Engineering@ SpotHero

27 May 202011 Jan 2023

I will talk about the year in five parts/posts: Scaling -> Governance, People, Technology Product Not Scaling -> COVID 19 May 2019 - The company had been without a VP…