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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Software Engineering Leadership

16 Sep 20189 Mar 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,…
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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…

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