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the blind side of seniority

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…knowledge you earn by getting burned, is what separates senior engineers from junior ones, and that it's worth protecting because no metric can see it. I still believe that. Everybody who has… [more]

What Makes a Senior Engineer Senior, and How Do You Build a Great Team?

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…killing it in the process. Once you have that word, the seniority ladder looks different. What separates a senior engineer from a junior one isn't a bigger pile of technē. The junior might well… [more]

Some Thoughts on Engineering Leaderhip

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…even go so far as to say, wait until you are a strong Senior Engineer before you consider it. So 5-8 years in industry. Going back to the emotional load part: Empathy is the super power of great team… [more]

What Makes a Team Lead Great?

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…should delegate it often. When you delegate it to a non-senior engineer this is a great opportunity for mentorship, either from you or another more senior engineer on your team. Your senior engineers… [more]

Lumio UtahJS Conf 2022

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Welcome! I've been at Lumio for a few months now (ok fine 8 months) and I am looking for more people to join our rapidly expanding team. Check out the jobs, and more information about our team… [more]

Let's talk about Boot camps

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…from what I learned prepping for that talk I gave on being senior a while ago has stalled. So instead I am going to write about small chunks of it. This is the first. The most surprising finding of… [more]

Being Senior Part 1- the books and data

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This is just a quick post to throw up the books I quoted from and a link to the data for anyone who attended my presentation at Utah JS Conference 2016 today. I am putting down my thoughts in a long… [more]

2015: in review

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…(core team) member for the LDS Church and finished it as a Senior Front End Engineer for Instructure. During that time I re-wrote designfrontier on a new engine, using ansble for it’s data store… [more]