About
I'm an engineering leader, problem solver, and entreprenuer. I believe in servant leadership, that small teams can have significant impact, and that bias for action creates success.
I hold a Ph.D and a MS in Computer Science. Love scuba diving and audiobooks. You can learn more about working with me here.
My Engineering Leadership Principles
- Servant Leadership: Leaders serve their teams, not the other way around. They listen carefully and act with empathy in the best interest of their teams and company.
- Small teams can make a significant impact: Small teams of competent individuals working in synchrony can produce incredible results that lead to incommensurable impact.
- Bias for action is 90% of the work: Doing and producing a result is 90% of any endeavor. I value people that can not only ideate but also jump to action.
- Dreaming big and starting small: Dreaming big gives us a reason to be excited, but there of a journey to getting there, and it starts small. Iterating rather than doing big-bang deliveries increases the chances of getting to that dream.
- Working backward and making data-driven decisions: Working backward is one of the best ways of generating outcomes, clearly envisioning a goal, and tracing a path to it. When paired with data-driven decision-making, it yields the best results.
- Performance measured in outcomes, not raw output: The ultimate goal of any organization is producing outcomes, be it for the customer, the patrons, the stakeholders, etc. High-performance individuals and teams focus on outcomes over intermediate output. For example, it is more important that engineers deliver features than the number of lines of code they write.
- I value ownership, autonomy, and judgment: Giving ownership and independence to capable people yields the best results. Ownership enables autonomy; the more autonomy we can afford to grant, the more motivated and driven to deliver results people will be.
Code and Writings
Coding is my first passion, and I love to write code, learn new languages, and tinker with code-related tooling. My second passion is people leadership; I love reading about leadership, writing about leadership, thinking about organizational management, dealing with people, and how different roles shape a team and tech in general. In my GitHub page you will find some examples of code I have written through the years. I'm trying to get my writings into Medium (the platform of choice these days), but they are also available on GitHub.