TLDR; I’m available for employment again. My time with Nordstrom was everything I’d hoped it would be. Late Stage career growth is a personal journey Last April I had no idea how large the Nordstrom product and engineering teams were, nor how substantial their scale. I had just come from…

I’ve been thinking a lot about how many people, how many tasks, how much effort, how much cost for public cloud managed services you should be allocating as an engineering leader. There’s this promise that with each layer of increasing abstraction in modern software development we’ll be freeing up ‘developers’…

Lending the privilege of being employed I’ve been laid off three times in my career (not counting the 3 times I’ve laid myself off, when it was what was best for the company), I’ve been the author of 3 layoffs in order to save a company so that those who…

Code Shaming is the worst anti-pattern of all. As a developer manager (of sorts), I often find myself digging into code I don’t understand in applications when I’m trying to help out, or more likely when I’m dog-fooding our development processes. So it’s not surprising that in my first months…

Whatever Works In my twenty some odd years of working in collaborative projects I’ve encountered dozens of management theories on productivity and effective models for working. I have always tried to pull from the relevant portions of each process into my work when it brings value to the team I’m working in…

I love to optimize a funnel as much as the next guy. Working at Airhelp as the CIO, I’ve seen our VP of Product do some amazing things to help conversion, and reduce drop-off post user acquisition, some of it is a little clever but in general we stay away…