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Senior Director of Engineering

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Engineering Leader, Agile Coach, Change Agent, Code Craftsperson Certified Scrum@Scale Practitioner Specializing in building high-performing agile teams and designing robust, maintainable, and scalable software. Promoting self-organizing, autonomous teams, and an engineering culture fixated on delivering value to the user. Some of my values and principles: Put people first Continuous learning and improvement Empathy Communicate, communicate, communicate Radical transparency Empower teams of smart creatives Keep it simple, move fast and iterate Embrace change Debate, decide, commit Some of my favorite quotes: “Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.” "Always code as if the person who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live." "The difference between following a discipline and premature optimization: Discipline isn't premature, it's old wisdom brought forward." "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." "Writing software as if we are the only person that ever has to comprehend it is one of the biggest mistakes and false assumptions that can be made." "I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it." Specialties: Engineering Management/Leadership, Organization Structure Design, Agile Development, OOP, Functional Programming, Clean Architecture, Domain-Driven Design, Single Page Applications, Microservices, Progressive Web Apps, TDD, Knowledge of Design Patterns (Gang of Four, PoEAA, MVC/P, MVVM, CQRS) Languages: JavaScript, Python, PHP, CSS, HTML5, SQL. Also a little F#, Kotlin, Ruby, Swift Libraries/Frameworks/Tech: React, Redux, NodeJS, Express, Styled Components