Effective Mentorship and Management Methodologies for Engineering Leaders

My first experience working with a computer was learning how to escape the GUI on Windows 3.1 so I could launch Oregon Trail (DOS only program). Since those early days I've spent 17 years building web software and developer teams professionally. I've designed, implemented, and maintained high traffic systems on various OSS technologies and stacks, and love the web niche.

I have spent 7 years in technical management, working alongside CEOs and CTOs to craft engineering culture, processes, and pipelines while building teams from the ground up. I believe the attitudes and structures surrounding mentorship and management are most critical in unlocking engineering leaders to reach their greatest personal potential. Additionally, these mechanisms offer the best points of leverage for leadership seeking to establish and instill a cohesive culture across their engineering organization. I believe every technology leader experiences optimal growth when they have both an ideal mentor and ideal mentee(s) in place.

Established rhythms of mentorship can unlock technical talent at every level. Every highly effective team consists of highly impactful humans, and the greatest obstacles to team cohesion often occur amidst crises of communication and/or culture, not technology. In seeking to become the most effective and impactful leaders in the arena of technology, a technology centric approach will only get you so far.

The first chapters of my career were in educational tech at the University of California before then working with a series of early stage startups. Most recently I worked with the CTO at LightBox, an 800 employee organization with nine figure revenues, to cohere technology products and practices across 8 acquisitions. I've worked closely with executives, VPs and directors while coming alongside interns and junior engineers to build business shifting technology and seed culture at all levels of an organization.

Today, I work with technology leaders to design, plan, and implement organizational changes at unique inflection points in their history. Whether it is helping founding engineers scale their impact across several new engineering teams, or helping a nontechnical founder find and hire their perfect CTO, I am able to meet you at your current stage in the journey and ensure you embark on the next chapter with a clear plan and extensive preparation.