Hiring
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Series B Hiring Role Matrix
Half the "Head of Data" searches I see are two different jobs wearing one title.
Read →Data Mesh Readiness For 50+
A 60-person scaleup asked me to design their data mesh. After the readiness check, we kept the central team.
Read →Leadership Debt Compounds
Tech debt gets a backlog and a budget. Leadership debt gets a shrug, and it compounds faster.
Read →Hiring Retention Via Culture Fit
We changed one screening step and two senior data engineers are still there, past year two.
Read →Hero DE Burnout Cycle
Praising the engineer who fixes everything at 2am rewards the exact dependency that eventually takes the platform down with them.
Read →The Hiring Gap For Senior DEs
87% of tech leaders rate senior data engineer hiring as difficult. Most of them are bidding against AI startups.
Read →Software Modernization Is Not Architectural Modernization
Software modernization and architectural modernization are different problems with different fixes.
Read →Consolidating from 15 tools to 7 in 2026. Three drivers, none of them innovation
Consolidating from 15 tools to 7 in 2026. Three drivers, none of them innovation.
Read →Brent Is Your Senior Data Engineer
Every data team has a Brent. The one person who knows everything. The one person the org can't afford to lose. The one person who's about to …
Read →The Death of the Full-Stack Data Engineer
Stop hiring full-stack data engineers. They don't exist, and pretending they do is burning your team out.
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