🏄‍♂️ how I work

🙏 my values

• minimal process
• highly aligned, loosely coupled
• simple > clever
• communication should be concise
• make great decisions quickly
• collaboration is key
• extreme programming
• kindness
• focus on shipping

💪 my strengths

• soft skills coaching
• technical guidance
• building effective process
• creating a collaborative team culture
• cross team leadership
• conflict resolution and relationship management

🌱 my growth areas

• expanding my organizational awareness
• building a stronger birds-eye view (my scope of ownership has recently grown 🥳!)

☎️ communicating with me

📺 channels

• slack is the best way to reach me
• send a DM or @ me where you need input
• for longer or more nuanced discussions I love impromptu zooms/huddles

🕖 time

• I work 9-5 EST
• I keep my calendar up to date so when booking over meetings please ask first
• I try to keep the later part of my week light on meetings to provide focus time

⛵️ 1:1s with direct reports

• my primary goal is to support you - as such I leave the agenda largely up to you
• our 1:1s can have as much or as little structure as you would like
• when requesting feedback, I can provide the best feedback if you’re specific
• for example: “Could you give me feedback on ___ MR, I want to know what you think about how I designed ___ function” will get better feedback from me than “Could you give me feedback on MRs”
• anything sensitive we discuss is within our circle of trust
• it’s important to me to have personal relationships with the people I work with, I love talking about things outside of work

✨ inspirations

these are some of the people I draw from when looking for guidance on various engineering or leadership topics

• Will Larson
• Dave Smith
• Lara Hogan
• Uncle Bob
• Paul Graham
• Martin Fowler
• Sandi Metz

final note

this readme is a work in progress, so if there is something you'd like to know please ask!

thank you for taking the time to read my readme