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Managing Managers: Words of Wisdom from Experienced Engineering Executives

I Asked Managers of Managers I Look Up To for Advice As I Transitioned From Team Lead to Director of Engineering — I recently stepped into the role of Director of Engineering at Lemonade. Though I’ve been leading teams for quite a few years now, managing managers is a new challenge. I turned to managers of managers, whom I value and don’t work with on a daily basis, to gain a wider…

Engineering Mangement

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Managing Managers: Words of Wisdom from Experienced Engineering Executives
Managing Managers: Words of Wisdom from Experienced Engineering Executives
Engineering Mangement

7 min read


Published in codeburst

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How to Successfully Join a Company as Engineering Manager

In mid-2020 I joined Lemonade as Engineering Team Lead. Here are 4 things I did to succeed. In June 2020 I joined Lemonade as Engineering Team Lead. Though I had past experience as an Engineering Manager, it was my first time joining a company in a management position. In addition…

Engineering Mangement

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How to Successfully Join a Company as Engineering Manager
How to Successfully Join a Company as Engineering Manager
Engineering Mangement

6 min read


Published in codeburst

·Mar 22, 2020

So Long, and Thanks for All the Pandas

Three lessons from my three years at BigPanda — After three amazing years, my time at BigPanda and a significant chapter of my professional life, has come to an end. During this time, the organization grew from a 30-employee startup to a well-established ~120-employee company with many Fortune 500 enterprise customers — and I matured with it. I transitioned…

Transparency

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So Long, and Thanks for All the Pandas
So Long, and Thanks for All the Pandas
Transparency

4 min read


Jan 18, 2020

Everyday Engineering Lessons Learned from ‘Rick and Morty’

Summary of the talk “Rick and (post)Morty”, given at DevOpsDays TLV 2019 — During DevOpsDays TLV 2019, my partner in crime Erik Zaadi and I gave a talk with the title “Rick and (post)Morty”. What started as a joke a few months before the conference, turned out to be the most enjoyable presentation I have ever given. The talk enabled us to combine…

Devopsdays

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Everyday Engineering Lessons Learned from ‘Rick and Morty’
Everyday Engineering Lessons Learned from ‘Rick and Morty’
Devopsdays

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Published in BigPanda Engineering

·Jul 12, 2019

Skip Tests in Mocha

Dynamically skip JavaScript tests at runtime with Mocha — Mocha is a popular JavaScript test framework for Node.js & the browser. Unlike other test frameworks I’ve used before, it is really simple and quick to start with. One of the most common actions when writing or debugging tests, regardless of the framework used, is being able to ignore some…

Java Script

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Skip Tests in Mocha
Skip Tests in Mocha
Java Script

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Published in BigPanda Engineering

·Jul 3, 2019

Nothing Good Ever Happens After 2am

A postmortem session from Reversim Summit 2019 — It was a quiet Sunday at the office. We deployed an innocent looking change to some legacy code. We were happy… for 24 hours. Then our support team got in touch to tell us about clients reporting an issue. It was quickly linked to our, now notorious, patch.” These are…

Outage

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Nothing Good Ever Happens After 2am
Nothing Good Ever Happens After 2am
Outage

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Published in BigPanda Engineering

·Sep 16, 2018

Secrets from the Interview Room — What Reviewers Look For in a Take-home Coding Assignment

R&D organizations have various technical interview approaches, as part of their recruiting processes. The company I work for, BigPanda, practices a take-home coding challenge, to help determine the quality and technical fit of the candidate. Once the task is reviewed and its level passes the needed bar, an interview takes place in…

Coding

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Secrets from the Interview Room — What Reviewers Look For in a Take-home Coding Assignment
Secrets from the Interview Room — What Reviewers Look For in a Take-home Coding Assignment
Coding

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Published in BigPanda Engineering

·Nov 10, 2017

Going to a Developers’ Conference? Be Sure to Go Through This Checklist

Over the past few years, I’ve attended a fair share of software development conferences, some even as a speaker. the night before every conference I find myself thinking what should I bring with me? In most cases, at some point during the conference I realize that I forgot something, regretting not…

Conference

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Going to a Developers’ Conference? Be Sure to Go Through This Checklist
Going to a Developers’ Conference? Be Sure to Go Through This Checklist
Conference

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Published in BigPanda Engineering

·Oct 11, 2017

Using Ansible to Compile NGINX from Sources with Custom Modules

In my previous post, I explained how to set up a NGINX server with custom modules using Vagrant. As it’s often the case when working on Infra/DevOps tasks, once you’ve got the task done you’re likely going to repeat it, and that’s where automation enters the game. There are various…

Nginx

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Using Ansible to Compile NGINX from Sources with Custom Modules
Using Ansible to Compile NGINX from Sources with Custom Modules
Nginx

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Published in BigPanda Engineering

·Aug 27, 2017

Setting up a NGINX Server with Custom Modules on Mac OS X Using Vagrant

It has been a few years since I last played with NGINX. This, together with the fact that my recent move to a new startup included a change of dev environment, Linux (fedora) to Mac OS X, made the task mentioned above a little more challenging. I was working on…

Vagrant

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Setting up a NGINX Server with Custom Modules on Mac OS X Using Vagrant
Setting up a NGINX Server with Custom Modules on Mac OS X Using Vagrant
Vagrant

4 min read

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Daniel Korn

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Software Developer; Director of Engineering at Lemonade 🍋 https://twitter.com/korndaniel1 https://danielkorn.io/

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