Developer Spotlight: Andrew Kunzel, Director of Backend Engineering
Aug 16, 2020 8:56:16 PM
This morning I had the opportunity to chat with software engineers and data scientists at the AI Dev World Conference on a topic I just happen to be v...
Meet Andrew. He’s our Director of Backend Engineering and is a member of Team Bolt ⚡️ who is currently working on building the Developer Dashboard and v2 of our...
Meet Mike. He’s a Platform Operations Engineer here a Pinpoint and member of Team Bolt ⚡️ . who is currently working on building our cloud infrastructure and ba...
As we ideate around the idea of a Developer Profile, we wanted to learn more about our team and about who they are as a developer — and a person to get a better...
Transparency is fundamental to Pinpoint. This philosophy guides our product – teams work better together when they have visibility and open communication – and ...
Agile retrospectives are an opportunity for engineering teams to reflect on a project in order to identify what went well and areas of improvement. The goal is ...
Satya Nadella said in Microsoft’s April earnings call that “we’ve seen two years of digital transformation in two months” since the onset of COVID-19. If softwa...
As a Tech Lead on the application engineering team at Pinpoint, I work on front-end web products, including prototyping, developing new features, and architectu...
Since Pinpoint was founded, a large percentage of our team has worked remotely. As many other companies now find themselves making an unplanned, rushed transiti...
Like most engineers, I love solving problems and optimizing for efficiency. Throughout my years on engineering, QA, and product teams, I’ve found that there’s o...
A salesperson walked into an engineering conference...🤔 It sounds like the start of a potential joke, but it was actually one of the most valuable learning exp...
Over the past 30 years, nearly everything about software engineering has changed. What was once a relatively niche part of the company such as setting up a sing...
In a recent Quora Session, I was asked about the performance metrics that matter most to a business’s success. For a software company, this means both the metri...
Years ago, a friend of mine walked into an upscale bar in Chicago. He ordered a gin and tonic. “Twenty dollars,” the bartender told him. “Twenty!” my friend sai...
For a bulk of its history, software engineering has been like a factory where we can see the orders going in, we can see the product that comes out, but we can’...
Every now and again, we like to scrutinize the received wisdoms of software engineering against what the data says. Is the value of a given best practice backed...
We all know the best practice: when committing code, link it to the originating issue. This is simple to do, as easy as hashtagging the issue ID in the commit c...
If you think about software engineering as a pipeline (as we do), it clarifies, at the highest level, what we care about: how much we get done, how fast we get ...
“Why aren’t we moving faster?” It’s a question, sometimes with an expletive attached, that rings in lots of leaders’ ears. The old engineering joke used to be: ...
A couple of weeks ago, at the invitation of the Gartner Research Board, I spoke to a group of human resources executives from some of the biggest companies in A...
I recently sat down with Jeff Epstein, an operating partner at Bessemer Venture Partners and former CFO of Oracle. The aim of Pinpoint is to use data science to...
Let’s start with the basic idea. Sprints are a good way to plan work because they’re bounded by a short duration. What can we get done in three months? Boy, har...
Initiatives to measure software development are a source of all kinds of engineering misery. Measures, metrics, OKRs, KPIs...the work to define these things is ...
As Yogi Berra said, "It’s difficult to make predictions, especially about the future." Hard to argue with—particularly if you work in software engineering.
This post is adapted from a talk I gave at DevExecWorld in San Francisco, titled: “In a World of Data Science, Why is So Much of Engineering Still Guesswork?”
If you're like us, you've got a reasonably well-documented expectation for how your engineering should get done. Setting aside the particular methods of a team ...
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