Instrumenting the Dark Ends
Precision and Impact are where the high-leverage judgment now sits. What to actually put in the two columns your dashboard never lit.
Articles & Insights
Judgment Is the New Bottleneck
Code got cheap, so engineering throughput stopped being the scarce thing. What replaced it, and why your current dashboard can't see it.
From Pilots to Production: The Rollout
The operational playbook for rolling AI out across a real engineering organization: five phases, paced crawl-walk-run, with the readiness red flags that tell you you're not ready to scale yet.
Building AI Platforms That Scale Human Agency
The future of AI should look like the cloud infrastructure revolution, not social media consolidation. Here's how we as platform engineers build for that.
The Three As of Building A+ Platforms: Acceleration, Autonomy, and Accountability
Lessons from building three platforms across VMware, Stripe, and Apollo GraphQL - from Solis cost platform to ShuttleCrawler delivery platform to Monster async processing...
Infrastructure Engineering Deep Dive: Leading Data Platform at Stripe
Comprehensive interview on building critical data infrastructure, debugging velocity, managing distributed systems, and navigating organizational programs at scale...
Designing a Growth Framework for Your Engineering Team
When and why growth frameworks become essential as organizations scale, and how to create one that actually works for your team...
Fostering Autonomy and Trust to Lead High-Performing Teams
How to fuel individual motivation, team velocity, and organization scale through building a culture of autonomy and trust...
Metrics: A Primer to Drive Precision, Speed, Quality & Impact
Comprehensive guide for leveraging metrics to achieve your objectives, desired outcomes, and incentivize the right behaviors in your engineering organization...
How to Successfully Lead Your Team Through a Downturn
Navigating the challenges of going from boom times to economic uncertainty - essential strategies for first-time managers in challenging environments...
Why You Need an Engineering Ladder, and When to Build One
Creating an engineering culture of fairness, transparency, and consistency through well-designed career progression frameworks...
Executing and Evaluating Technical Strategy at Scale
Practical frameworks for driving technical strategy across multiple teams and evaluating its effectiveness in large organizations...
Elevating Your Leadership Skills During Tough Times
What skills do you need to be a great leader during economic uncertainty? Building resilience and maintaining team performance when everything is changing...
Navigating Engineering Performance Reviews: Part Two
How to effectively evaluate your reports, calibrate across teams, and give feedback that drives growth and performance...
Navigating Engineering Performance Reviews: Part One
How to effectively evaluate yourself and your peers - frameworks for fair, consistent, and growth-oriented performance assessments...
Debugging Engineering Velocity and Leading High-Performing Teams
Looking beyond the speed of delivery to identify what's really slowing your team down - a comprehensive playbook for engineering leaders...
The Power of Delegation and Well-Designed Metrics
From my experience at Stripe: why effective delegation paired with thoughtful metrics can transform your engineering organization...
Career Journey and Advice for Engineering Leaders
From Stripe Engineering Manager to thought leader - sharing insights on career transitions, mentoring, and building relationships across engineering organizations...