Head of Eng @topi_eu formally a Principal @SkyscannerEng @FT. I'm a tech tinkerer, public speaker, passionate skier, pasta obsessive. She/her
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17 Dec 2019
I had a really hard time finding a principal engineer role after I left the FT. I had some wrong turns on the journey but it all helped me get real clarity in understanding what I expected in this role. I finally got around to writing up my experiences: medium.com/@SkyscannerEng/fi…
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11 Feb 2023
Fabulous blog post about platform engineering. I've seen many "platform" teams de-evolve into running a platform rather than solving a real problem or enabling others.
9 Feb 2023
So, rather than screaming into the void regarding my thoughts on Platform Engineering, I thought I'd just scream those thoughts into a blog post instead - Don't Call It A Platform: samnewman.io/blog/2023/02/08…
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22 Nov 2022
This looks like an incredible starup that is looking at the factors that affect long covid - Meaning folk can track their condition
21 Nov 2022
Today, we're launching the Visible Beta app for #LongCovid and #MECFS.
We want to make tracking your condition and taking part in research available to as many people as possible, as soon as possible.
Here's more about what we're building:👇🧵1/7
makevisible.com/blog/the-nex…
6 Oct 2022
I've always struggled with scrum as it felt artificial to jam the work into a sprint and amount of ceremony time felt so wonky. Matters were worse at one company where we had to do weekly sprints! I love how @SergioRocks articulates how this just doesn't work for async
5 Oct 2022
Why I don't use Scrum to manage my Remote Teams?
TL;DR: It adds at least 8 hours of meetings per Sprint. That's 2 full days of lost productivity, per team member, per month!
This is what I do instead 👇
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9 Sep 2022
So I cope with the peri-menopausal levels of anxiety day to day but didn't quite comprehend how hard it would to learn to dive with it. Many panic attacks later I got as far as a certified scuba diver. May I finally convince the doctors for HRT to complete my open water :)
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9 Sep 2022
Oh @holly_cummins thank you so much for this memory, it was such a fun panel filled with some great perspectives from different experiences from the audience and us :)
Eek, that’s me!
Two super things about this all-women panel.
1. It passed the conference Bechdel test - the topic was microservices, not DEI.
2. It was accidental :) I mean, of course you’re going to want @sarahjwells and @NickyWrightson and @devstefops on your panel.
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11 Aug 2022
Interviewing well is a skill that gets rusty very quickly... It would be great to have community where folk can be mock interviewed in a sensible manner that is relevant to the roles and companies they want to work at.
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18 Jul 2022
Perhaps part of the problem is some folk take the term "individual contributor" too literally. Staff roles are a move to enabling others rather than immediate individual delivery. To do that effectively they need to exhibit certain behaviours. infoq.com/articles/transitio… @InfoQ
17 Jul 2022
The work done by staff engineers and principal engineers is supposed to be different than the work done by senior engineers. It's much more people-y. More emphasis on the "socio" of sociotechnical.
(I have ranted about levels elsewhere, like here: x.com/mipsytipsy/status/1439…)
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12 Jul 2022
Becoming a Staff engineer you go from being a good engineer to helping others become great engineers. It can be easy to continue the behaviours that got you to this role without adopting new ways of working. So I wrote up what I think that transition to Staff looks like
Transitioning into the Staff Engineer Role - from Player to Coach bit.ly/3RCX2AG authored by @nickywrightson, reviewed by @BenLinders
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23 Jun 2022
1/ I became a fractional CTO before knowing what one was. I discovered it was a marmite role of constant change and hat changing. This role isn’t for me but in finding that out I learnt a tonne about the role and early stage startups:
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23 Jun 2022
12/ It’s been an incredible adventure and I have learnt a tonne but ultimately the fractional nature of the role has not been for me. I seek a role that I am all in with a product and organisation - enabling building a great culture and from that hopefully great tech
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23 Jun 2022
13/ Therefore I am now seeking new opportunities in a full-time technical leadership role.
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