Notes on engineering leadership, team scaling, and hiring for Seed and Series A startups.
If every engineering hire needs your final sign-off, hiring is capped at your calendar. Here's how to build a hiring process that doesn't depend on the founder in the room.
A full-time Head of Engineering is a six-figure, multi-month bet. Here's how to tell whether your team needs that yet, or needs the function first.
A practical look at where large language models help fractional engineering leadership and embedded teams move faster, and where they don't.
A practical model for moving from one team to an engineering organization as your startup grows past 5 people.