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… A year at SpotHero leading Engineering PT 4 – product 27 May 202027 May 2020 Product May 2019 We are a two sided marketplace - Consumers on one side (Parkers) and Operators (Owners/management of Parking facilities) on the otherWe were not Product led as a…
Leadership… A year at SpotHero leading Engineering PT 3 – Technology 27 May 202027 May 2020 Technology May 2019 The SpotHero monolith is Python/DjangoThe Parking Panda monolith is c#/.net (SpotHero acquired Parking Panda in Spring 2017)We were extracting core functionality from our monolith to build out…
Leadership… A year at SpotHero leading Engineering PT 2 – People 27 May 202027 May 2020 People- May 2019 The Product and Engineering was about 50 peopleOffices in Chicago HQ, Baltimore and a couple remote WFHMost Engineering Managers had over 10-14 engineers to serveOur focus and…
Leadership… A year at SpotHero leading Engineering 27 May 202027 May 2020 I will talk about the year in five parts/posts: Scaling -> Governance, People, Technology ProductNot Scaling -> COVID 19 May 2019 - The company had been without a VP of…
Leadership… Software Engineering Leadership 16 Sep 201824 Mar 2021 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…
Career Management… Surviving a Technical Interview 23 Nov 201516 Jan 2018 Over my career as a software something, I have had a bunch of technical interviews. Some I have done well in and some I have not. The first part of this…
Community… Housing – Why I am leaving Vancouver and going to the US 6 Nov 201516 Jan 2018 My decision to leave was made with the following understandings: that if I stayed here I would be very unlikely to afford a place of my own, and that if I wanted to take…
