Part of my day-job as head of Engineering at Google Ireland was attending talks and events/Q&A for local interest groups like Engineers Ireland. I was reminded today of a panel I was on around diversity in engineering in Ireland, and my allegedly 'fascinating' comments at it. That's not …
Category: Writing Tagged: writing leadership dei
Read MoreCommunicating with your team scales up as your team grows - it's an experience not unlike the individual engineer to senior engineer to staff engineer path. As well as scaling up in terms of impact, the very method of how you do it changes.
You very quickly …
Category: Writing Tagged: writing leadership
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Bit of a shuffle in what musical projects I'm working on - two groups I'm with have fizzled (at least, my involvement with them has) and one other is coming up.
One of the bits I've signed up for is playing samples on stage through front-of-house, so I've invested in a …
Category: Log Tagged: log music
Read MoreOn July 19th 2004, I spent my first day at Google. I showed up at the Datacenter in Dublin, since that's apparently where SREs and production folks were going to sit. There wasn't a corp network connection, because this was Google in 2004. A couple of days later, I moved …
Category: Writing Tagged: log work google sre
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Going to be playing a bit of catch-up, since it's been a few months.
Work is still workin' -- I've got some coaching going on, and am still working mainly with one team on consulting. It's been fun times, and the gig is flexible enough that I've gone essentially part time …
Category: Log Tagged: log motorcycle travel
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