The Playbook for Hiring Your First 100 Engineers
Hiring 100 engineers in 18 months while maintaining an exceptionally high bar. The process, the mistakes, and the principles that built a world-class engineering team.
Thoughts on engineering, leadership, and building software that matters.
Hiring 100 engineers in 18 months while maintaining an exceptionally high bar. The process, the mistakes, and the principles that built a world-class engineering team.
The journey from user story to deployed feature is where most teams lose alignment. Here's the framework we use to ensure that what we build is exactly what the business needs.
Everyone says you can't have enterprise standards at startup speed. We proved them wrong. Here's the exact playbook for building world-class engineering practices from day one.
Traditional documentation rots the moment it's written. Executable specifications stay accurate forever. Here's how we replaced wikis and Confluence pages with specifications that are always true.
BDD isn't a testing methodology — it's a communication revolution. How we transformed BDD from a QA tool into the backbone of cross-functional collaboration across a 200-person engineering org.
How I built an engineering organization from scratch, established world-class standards, and created a culture that attracts and retains top-tier talent in a hyper-growth environment.