Code Schools: The Bar

I’ve been drinking a lot of coffee. A lot. People here in Denver are making significant career changes and becoming…

What it’s Like Coding in a Large Team

In 2003 I joined a small startup in San Diego called ProfitLine as a software engineer. I was…

Denver = Career Stagnation?

People

If I leave San Francisco and work for a company in a place like Denver…

“The Engineer”

“Oh, you’re ‘The Engineer’!”

“Uh, hi, I’m Jeremy.”

Thinking about Team Structure

Distributed teams aren’t new to software engineering. It’s safe to say that those who have been in the…

Bringing Top Talent to Denver/Boulder

I attended a dinner last week with about thirty influential folks in the Denver/Boulder tech scene (I’m not actually sure how I got invited). The topic was how might we work together to make ours a more attractive region for top-tier tech talent to live and work…

Modularizing Salesforce Integration at Gusto

On March 9th, 2017 I gave a talk at our office in Denver about an architectural approach we’re taking to modularize our codebase. Of note, this approach is experimental and is not widely implemented at Gusto.

Onboarding Denver Engineers

5 months ago I was the only Gusto engineer in Denver. Now we have 6. All of us are new to the company, and…

Hacking with Gusto

Once or twice a year, Gusto’s engineering, product, and design (EPD) team likes to pause, convalesce, and spend three days…