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One of the fastest ways to stall out in your engineering leadership journey is by failing to manage up. I’m not talking about sucking up or nodding along in meetings like a bobblehead. I’m talking about being the kind of person your VP or CTO can rely on—someone who brings clarity, drives solutions, and actually […]
There’s a common mistake I see new engineering leaders make—especially those who’ve had success before. They show up to a new team, armed with something that worked at a previous company or with a different crew. And because it worked before, they assume it’s gold. It must work here too, right? But the truth is:
One of the fastest ways to accelerate your career in tech is simple to say but hard to master: build trust with the people above you. Whether you’re a tech lead, engineering manager, or aspiring staff engineer, your ability to manage up is just as important as managing your team. When your manager knows they
Work Through Your Team, Not Around Them If you’re stepping into engineering leadership—or already there—you’ll eventually face a hard truth: you can’t do it all yourself. Not even close. The Shift From Doer to Enabler Early on, you can juggle both. You’re hands-on, reviewing PRs, cranking out fixes, shipping features and managing your small team.
The fastest feedback loop you’re not using enough. Most of us like to believe we write good code—maybe even great code. We test as we build. We poke around in Postman. We check the happy path. We tell ourselves: “Yeah, this is solid.” But then something happens. You push your beautiful, handcrafted update to production…
How to make your team faster without wasting time on the wrong kind of “efficiency.“ There’s always too much work. Always. Backlogs never end, deadlines don’t care, and some of the stuff you’re dealing with is so old and clunky it should come with a warning label. In infrastructure, DevOps, product, or frankly any team,
We all got into software and engineering because we love solving problems. If you don’t like solving problems, you might want to rethink a few life choices. Me? I love using AI, YouTube, other people’s hard-earned lessons—and yeah, sometimes just beating my head against the wall until something finally works. There’s something addictive about the