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…
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