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Jay Barker

@jbrkr

Technology Leader & Software Engineer

 Seattle area, WA, USA
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Joined November 2010
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The Secret to Recruiting Quickly and Retaining Your People tomtunguz.com/middle-managem…
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Folks often ask me what I do at work. What even IS an engineering director? I don’t write code all day anymore, so it seems very mysterious. Here’s my answer: people, processes, priorities.
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What do places have in common where developers *like* to work, thrive, and rarely think of leaving or switching? After talking with dozens of developers, and reflecting on my experience, here is what I found. The Developer Culture Test: blog.pragmaticengineer.com/t…
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Will Larson
@Lethain13 Jan 2020
In preparation for starting a new role next week, I had some convos with folks in those roles, did some research and have written up what you should focus on for your first 90 days as a VP Engineering or CTO lethain.com/first-ninety-day…
Your first 90 days as CTO or VP Engineering.

Your first 90 days as CTO or VP Engineering.

Whenever I transition to a new opportunity, I think about how to “start well.” How can I ramp up as effectively as possible? How do I balance the urge to “show value” immediately with making the...

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Atomico@atomico10 Sep 2019
"Europe has a Product Manager problem. A major skill shortage of PMs that is crippling our chances of executing towards huge outcomes."- @sirajkhaliq link.medium.com/9Wjxpa86RZ

Europe’s Product Management Problem

This is the first of a two-part series on Product Management at startups. Atomico partner Siraj Khaliq (in part 1) and XIR Steve Crossan…

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"Being a Tech Lead with Teammates More Experienced Than You" by @jyhsu #software #leadership blog.coleadership.com/being-…
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"An Open Letter to the Tacoma and South Sound Startup Community" by @leereeveseattle #startups #tacoma medium.com/@leereeves40/an-o…

An Open Letter to the Tacoma and South Sound Startup Community

First things first. I don’t live in Tacoma or the South Sound. I reside in Edmonds, Washington. I just happen to be interested in Tacoma…

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Why Can’t Europe Do Tech? bloomberg.com/news/features/… #cto #leadership
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"How flat hierarchy almost killed my startup" by @raffaelarein #startup #leadership medium.com/@raffaelarein/how…
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I wrote about building confidence as a CTO of a growing startup. I hope my experience will be helpful to others medium.com/@mattetti/buildin…
Building confidence as a CTO

Building confidence as a CTO

One the challenges of being a CTO post product-market fit is to build internal and external confidence around engineering

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My lessons from interviewing 400+ engineers over three startups (ft. @lever's @polotek, new on @firstround Review) firstround.com/review/my-les…
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"How my role as CTO has changed as we've grown to 100 engineers" by @edawerd engineering.gusto.com/how-my… #cto #software #leadership
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I just published “A Voight-Kampff Test for Identifying Engineering Managers” medium.com/p/a-voight-kampff…
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Learn what happened when we tried a three-day no-meeting schedule for engineers at @Pinterest pin.it/5iw67x2qpewg4f by @bthdonohue
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I just published “How startup CTOs learn to be startup CTOs” medium.com/p/how-startup-cto…
How startup CTOs learn to be startup CTOs

How startup CTOs learn to be startup CTOs

I’ve been thinking lately about the plight of the first-time startup CTO. Startup CTOs are an interesting crowd. They’re often people who…

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Why six week #squads are a great neo #agile methodology medium.com/cto-craft/why-six… @CTOCraft
Why six week squads are a great neo-agile methodology

Why six week squads are a great neo-agile methodology

Everybody nowadays says they develop software with agility: individuals and interactions, working software, customer collaboration…

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"Flavors of Engineering Management" by @benjaminencz blog.benjamin-encz.de/post/f… #cto #leadership #software

Flavors of Engineering Management · [Thinking inside a large box];

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@Una19 Feb 2018
The Ballmer Peak of Dev Teams
The Ballmer Peak of Dev Teams: As number of devs working on it increases, productivity increases (until you hit about 3 devs... then it dips drastically)

ALT The Ballmer Peak of Dev Teams: As number of devs working on it increases, productivity increases (until you hit about 3 devs... then it dips drastically)

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