About me

Engineering leader with 10+ years of experience building platforms at scale. I currently lead a 50-person Client Foundations organization at DoorDash, spanning iOS, Android, Web, and Design Infrastructure — enabling hundreds of engineers to ship products to millions of users.

Before DoorDash, I led Uber's Web Platform and CI teams, enabling engineers to ship code faster. I drove open-source strategy for Base Web, and established data-driven productivity metrics that shaped company-wide tooling decisions.

On this blog I write about the hard parts of engineering management — managing managers, growing senior ICs into leaders, navigating reorgs, giving feedback — and increasingly about how generative AI is reshaping how engineering teams are built.

As an engineering leader, I hold the following ideas precious:

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