Technology Learning about Electrical work in Canada 5 Nov 20236 Nov 2023 I took a pre-apprenticeship course in electrical work. Does this mean I am now a licensed electrician? Nope! That takes five years in Ontario, Canada working as an Apprentice. Consider…
Leadership… Scaling for Small and Medium Technology Companies 27 Apr 202314 Jun 2023 I've noticed many articles, books, and blog posts for Technology Leadership / Management are written by people who now or recently worked in Big Tech (Maybe they have more time…
Leadership… 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…
Leadership… 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…
Leadership… 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…
Leadership… 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…
Leadership… 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…
Leadership… Software Engineering Leadership 16 Sep 201815 Jun 2023 Software Engineer leadership is where you lead/manage a number of software engineers, directly or via another manager(s). Your title could be Engineering Lead, Software Engineer Manager, R&D Manager, Director of…
Software Development… Apple Worldwide Developers Confrence #WWDC17 #YearOfTheEngineer 9 Jun 20173 Dec 2018 Each year Apple holds a Developers conference called Apple Worldwide Developers Confrence or for short WWDC. It is a great place to learn and talk about Mac OS, iPhone Apps,…
Community… Building a tech/startup/knowledge friendly government in BC 5 Dec 201510 Dec 2015 There are those in the Startup/tech community who often say “stay out of my way and let me do my job mentality” to Government. Take this article for example: JUSTIN TRUDEAU…
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