Engineering Director @gymshark. Views my own. Builder of technical teams. Student of leadership and engineering chaos. Dad. Tamer of tantrums. He/him.
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Joined December 2010
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Dan Blundell retweeted
Learn how to drive pace and deliver high-impact projects with @danblundell at #LeadingEngLondon on June 13! bit.ly/3TSurJg
Full admiration of the design on bfcm.shopify.com this year and then find out that of course it’s brilliant, @StrangeNative was involved.
Having followed Russ’ work for _years_ it was joyful to love it and only realise afterwards who’s detailed attention was all over it
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Dan Blundell retweeted
The framework of you: Strategies beyond a growth mindset by @danblundell #sketchnote #LeadingEngLondon – at Islington, London
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Excited to be joining a stellar line up in a few weeks time, incredible content throughout #LeadDevLondon, #StaffPlusLondon and #LeadingEngLondon thanks to the folks at @TheLeadDev
Don’t miss @danblundell from Gymshark at #LeadingEngLondon on June 29 with his talk on ‘The framework of you: Strategies beyond a growth mindset.’ Together, you’ll explore ways to understand yourself and your own capabilities! bit.ly/3IWktBY
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Dan Blundell retweeted
Don’t miss @danblundell from Gymshark at #LeadingEngLondon on June 29 with his talk on ‘The framework of you: Strategies beyond a growth mindset.’ Together, you’ll explore ways to understand yourself and your own capabilities!
Dan Blundell retweeted
I'm looking for a freelance podcast producer/editor to work with us @TheLeadDev, know anyone good?
Can completely vouch for this, learning about the people around you through shared language and understanding gives so much context for trust and confidence to build between you ❤️#leadingengnyc
“Even if personality tests aren’t objectively valuable, the shared language to discuss preferences is super helpful” @mariagutierrez #LeadingEngNYC
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So excited for @QcMaude sharing experiences of load testing at massive scale over at @SlackHQ #StaffPlusNYC 🎉🎉🎉
How do you scale something like Slack? Maude Lemaire shares the evolution of their load testing toolset, from "API Blaster" to being able to simulate MILLIONS of clients.
(My good camera battery died but the #StaffPlusNYC conf lineup hasn't, two more after this!)
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“Operating as a staff engineer is as much of a leadership role as being a manager” - @ibkajila of @ShopifyEng
Fascinating to hear staff engineers were asking for development areas in leadership as managers were; 1:1s, feedback, alignment etc
#leadingengnyc @TheLeadDev
The final thanks of @TheLeadDev should totally go out to @tangentialism for being such an engaged host 🙏🏻 incredible job and ability to join dots and reference so inclusively #leaddevnyc
Happiness, Efficiency, Adoption, Task Success (HEAT) …giving you metrics to build a great platform @simonecasc at #leaddevnyc
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Incidents: we should ask our selves the question “why did it make sense to do that?” #leaddevnyc
@nora_js on how we can learn so much from from incidents by collaborating and taking the time to dig deeper, it can ultimately make us better leaders and find opportunities 🙏🏻
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The good kind of tech debt and why it’s important to solve the hard problems first. @jonrthornton with a wonderfully focused talk on how to do tech debt right at #leaddevnyc
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If I were anywhere near Denver in 9 days time, I’d be at this.
If you can be in Denver in 9 days time, go to this.
Learn from some of the best and insightful folks around
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9 Days until @LFISoftware #LFIConf23
Have you bought your ticket?
Some talks will be recorded. But there is a whole “secret” track full of incident stories — the ones that didn’t make the headlines. The ones you’ve been wondering… “what actually happened internally?”
Dan Blundell retweeted
On the eleventh day of Incident-mas, my Jeli pals sent to me
An introduction to discovering themes and takeaways from your analysis
(let’s pipe all this analysis and discussion into insights!)
jeli.io/blog/intro-to-themes…
Love this from @LauraJHyatt
I’m having a 50/50 day. Buzzing from a Game Day yesterday but loads of people on leave that would usual help fix things so the extra brain drain is quite grounding.
3 things are broken that should not be, I am scrambling to learn how to fix them. 🙌🏻
Tech Twitter can feel intimidating sometimes. Feels like everyone is amazing, so heres my real day:
Im having a shit day. I feel useless at work this week. Nothing is going right, & I feel like Im underperforming
Dont only compare yourself to Tech Twitter, we all have bad days
Another fascinating episode from @GettingThere__ on last years Roblox outage. Hard to grasp just how drained the teams must’ve been over such a long period of time. I finished up with so many questions for our own teams.
Go take a listen for yourself open.spotify.com/episode/4Zp…
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Dan Blundell retweeted
Even the incidents that don’t impact the end-user can provide juicy learning opportunities. @v_hue_g covers these “near-misses” and why we love them: jeli.io/blog/oops-that-almos…
Dan Blundell retweeted
Call for papers extended specifically for female speakers. We had over 90 applicants, only four of which were women.
Technical speakers (development talks) and business speakers are wanted here.
📣 SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED 📣
There's still time to submit your talk for #MM22UK!
We'd especially love to include more women on the bill - so please let your contacts, colleagues and friends know they still have time to submit!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
First conference in person for two years tomorrow.
To say I’m excited to meet folks at #awssummit London is an understatement
Come say hi, I’ll be somewhere between hyper extrovert and burned out introvert but I promise you I’ll welcome you however you show up
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