Engineering | People | Purpose
Earthquake-resistent buildings and serverless banking systems don’t sound like they belong in the same conversation. But for me, the path from structural engineering to cloud computing has always been about one thing: building resilient systems that can handle anything life throws at them. During a recent interview with the Stack Overflow podcast, I had a... Continue Reading →
I had a great experience speaking at QCon San Francisco last month, where I shared three defining moments from my career, offering lessons on navigating job loss, embracing continuous learning, and leading through organizational chaos. In this talk I provided actionable insights on building personal, technical, and organizational resilience to remain relevant and effective in... Continue Reading →
I had the opportunity to attend VentureBeat Transform last week (thanks Capital One!), and not surprisingly the content centered on AI. The event content went beyond the GenAI basics we’ve been seeing over the past couple of years to some of the next order effects. While I won’t attempt to cover everything, these are a... Continue Reading →
I had a great experience being interviewed by Patrick Gallagher for the ELC podcast on the topic of executive leadership. Kathleen Vignos, VP of Software Engineering @ Capital One, shares how to overcome executive leadership gaps that prevent eng leaders from advancing to the next level in their career. She covers how she applies a... Continue Reading →
One of the most common questions I hear when mentoring engineers is whether a person should pursue engineering management. I usually take this to mean that they are actually looking for a leadership role, and I want to help them discern whether that might be as a primarily technical leader or as a managerial leader.... Continue Reading →
When we managers build teams, we tend to focus on processes for improving efficiency, retention, and performance. But when it comes to change, what you especially need are systems that will build in resilience. Some of the suggestions below are common management techniques, but I’ll point out how they contribute to building resilience.
In August, I started my role as an engineering manager at Twitter. I came to Twitter looking to level up my technical skills and instincts, gain more management experience, and work on a collaborative team, and I’ve happily found all three.
Kathleen Codes 