In the last post, we worked on moderating stakeholder conflicts, and updated our design accordingly. At this point, I have a design that I feel really confident about. I’m roughly aligned with key stakeholders, and I’m finally ready to start writing. If you have a good design (you do, if you’ve followed the steps outlined…
Design Software developmentToday, I’m excited to announce that Seeq has released the the pr-reminders bot as an open source project! This bot integrates with GitHub and Slack to remind software engineering teams that there is code ready and waiting for review. Below is a (redacted) screenshot of the bot in action – it can be configured to…
UncategorizedAt Seeq, we’ve always been a fully remote company, starting with our co-founders on day 1. Along the way, we’ve developed some pretty strong opinions about how to do remote work. A big part of this has been refusing to take “no” for an answer whenever someone says “you can’t do X in a remote…
CultureA few months ago I volunteered for a rotation on our Applied ML team to help prepare some of Seeq’s beta add-ons for general availability. Compared to the main Seeq platform, add-on codebases are much smaller, weighing in at thousands of lines of code apiece rather than more than a million, but the ML team…
Software developmentI recently completed my 6-month onboarding process and am now beginning to take on the full scope of the VP of Engineering role for our team. The journey was unique, fun, and also instrumental in setting me up for success to lead our team. While every organization is different, I believe sharing my experience can be useful…
Culture Management Software development“No thanks!” was my first reaction when my manager suggested I temporarily swap places with a colleague of mine on a different development team. During our previous 1:1s, we had been discussing management as a possible next step in my career as a software engineer. I was set to begin our company’s new management training…
Culture Management Software developmentUpgrading Seeq’s Swagger tooling to OpenAPI Specification 3 has been a long-standing task that was always important but never urgent. However, as we begin to think about the future direction of our API and its documentation, it became more and more pressing to build on an up-to-date foundation that we could leverage for the next…
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