Posts in Leadership

2 posts on this theme.

• 

  The Car That Taught Me to Commit and Move On

  Leadership

  July 14, 2026

  6 min read

  In 2014 I bought a red Mazda 3 that turned out to be a rebuild write-off. Coming to terms with that bad decision, then learning to fix the car myself, taught me a resilience I leaned on the day I crashed Constant Contact.

  • Resilience
  • Growth
  • Engineering Leadership
• 

  I Built a Stream Processor and Accidentally Became a VP

  Leadership

  July 13, 2026

  6 min read

  For the first year, every line that shipped had my fingerprints on it. Then the team grew and the job quietly changed underneath me: it stopped being what I could build and became what four other people could ship without me in the room. Staying close to the code is what made that possible, and it's the same instinct that carried me to VP.

  • Technical Leadership
  • Staying Hands-On
  • Distributed Systems