Engineering Leadership
Managing engineers, running teams, hiring, planning, and open-source stewardship.
Playbook: New engineering manager: first 90 days
Trust built, cadences running, one visible improvement shipped per month.
People Management
Weekly direct-report meetings owned by them: growth, blockers, feedback — not status updates.
Evidence-based reviews with bias checks and consistent leveling across teams.
Team Process
Keep rituals that produce decisions; delete the rest or shorten them.
Classify debt by interest rate, allocate fixed capacity, and tie paydown to business risk.
Hiring
Same questions, rubric scoring, independent write-ups before debrief — predictive and fair.
Fast loops, real communication, respect for time — your employer brand compounds here.
Open Source Stewardship
Labels, templates, and response SLAs keeping the queue trustworthy without burnout.
A merge-rate-first contribution workflow: issue selection, minimal diffs, review follow-through. Use when contributing to someone else's repo, opening PRs upstr
Staff+ Operating Models
Scope selection, influence-through-artifacts, and force-multiplication rhythms for individual contributors.
Current-state honesty, bets with falsifiable outcomes, and resourcing asks tied to business narratives.
Journey Playbooks
Trust built, cadences running, one visible improvement shipped per month.
Structured interviews with scorecards producing consistent, defensible signals.
A repository strangers can adopt: governance, docs, and triage from day one.
Force-multiplying rhythms and funded tech strategy documents.