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Vlad A. IonescuinVlad A Ionescu .comLessons Learned The Hard WayIn early 2020, ShiftLeft, the company I helped build from scratch has reached product-market fit, roughly three years after its inception…Apr 14, 2020Apr 14, 2020
Vlad A. IonescuinVlad A Ionescu .comAnother 28 Engineering Management LessonsAs a continuation to the previous 44 Engineering Management Lessons, here are some more.Apr 8, 20201Apr 8, 20201
Vlad A. IonescuinVlad A Ionescu .comMy Version of 44 Engineering Management LessonsAs I was researching good engineering management practices in the early days of ShiftLeft, I found a gem of a blog post: 44 engineering…Mar 31, 2020Mar 31, 2020
Vlad A. IonescuinVlad A Ionescu .comDon’t let your engineers go to wasteUsually, when you talk about optimizing a system, you think about making it use less memory, less CPU, less bandwidth, less battery etc…Mar 24, 2020Mar 24, 2020
Vlad A. IonescuinVlad A Ionescu .comThe Startup’s Hierarchy of NeedsThe most value I got from going through an incubator (AngelPad) was the basic startup education. If you’re doing a startup for the first…Mar 16, 2020Mar 16, 2020
Vlad A. IonescuinVlad A Ionescu .comHow to Bootstrap Engineering in a Startup — Part 3: Tooling and ProcessesBootstrapping tooling and processes in a newly formed Engineering team.Mar 10, 20201Mar 10, 20201
Vlad A. IonescuinVlad A Ionescu .comHow to bootstrap Engineering in a startup — Part 2: Outsourcing, Culture, First-time LeaderThe moment you have your first few hires showing up at work, you’re now in a different challenge: how do you build a lasting culture…Mar 3, 2020Mar 3, 2020
Vlad A. IonescuinVlad A Ionescu .comHow to bootstrap an Engineering team in a startupThe Engineering team, in many startups, is a killer differentiator. If anything, a team can make or break a product, even before you look…Feb 25, 20201Feb 25, 20201
Vlad A. IonescuinShiftLeft BlogVulnerability Review: Apache Struts CVE-2017–5638Earlier this year, a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Apache Struts 2 became widely known to the public. Known as…Jul 5, 20171Jul 5, 20171