Spotify Light ... Nitro Engineering 2017
2016-12-09 Software-Engineering Management Culture
Finding a good and maybe even the right org structure for an engineering organization is something of a dark art. Initially everything is so easy. ... Read More
Why do I work for Nitro ... connecting the dots!
2016-11-11 Management Culture
We are redoing our engineering website and our blog (stay tuned). In parallel we have worked on the Nitro Mission Statement (for 2017 and beyond) and ... Read More
Visit the Powerscourt Gardens ... the Home of Software Gardening
2016-10-28 Software-Engineering Management Culture
Clearly … and obviously … the idea of Software Gardening is not mine. But as I have already mentioned once or twice … I like it a ... Read More
Zero-to-Hero ... in a day
2016-10-22 Management Culture
Yesterday I had a good day in the office! Nitro (like a lot of other startups) is going through growing pains. In the last 2 years we have hired a lot ... Read More
New Job, New Site, ...
2015-08-14 Personal Culture
Yep … I got a new job and yep … I got a new website. In reverse order, first: (Given that I am a VP Infrastructure Engineering) I am ... Read More
According to the Sunday Independent ... 50 years ago ... the outlook was ... mainly dry
2015-07-11 Personal Culture
Nuclear power plant offered to usReports are current in political circles that the Government has received an offer from a German industrialist to ... Read More
Talking about the value of immutability ... for deployment platforms and innovation
2013-11-12 Software-Engineering Management Culture Conferences
I am just back from presenting a talk at FutureStack in SFO. Very interesting trip. Got very positive feedback on what we are doing. Did meet a lot of ... Read More
Charting some KPIs ... how hard can it be?
2013-05-10 Software-Engineering Management Culture Nerdy
In the last couple of weeks I was working on an initiative to make all the Gilt Tech KPIs available in one place. There are lots of dashboard ... Read More
About broken windows and software gardening ... - Thoughts from The Pragmatic Programmer
2013-02-16 Software-Engineering Books Culture Thoughts
These days I am writing more source code again (mostly Scala) and decided to (re)read a couple of books to refresh some thoughts and ideas and ... Read More
Dublin Innovation Festival - Talking about Innovation, Gilt and Ireland ... and Evolution and Darwinism
2011-11-24 Management Innovation Culture
A couple of weeks ago I had the chance to talk about three things I care about: Innovation, Gilt and Ireland. The occasion was the Dublin Chamber of ... Read More