Hired first engineer — structured process from JD to offer in 3 weeks

Delivered difficult performance review with clear improvement plan and timeline

Delivered difficult performance review with clear improvement plan and timeline

Grew team NPS from 6 to 9.2 over 2 quarters

Shipped team handbook that reduced onboarding time from 2 weeks to 4 days

Coached engineer X from junior to first solo feature ship in 6 weeks

Reduced sprint planning from 3 hours to 45 minutes by pre-grooming tickets

Negotiated 40% budget increase for team tooling by connecting spend to velocity metric

Led incident retrospective after production outage — RCA completed, no blame

Ran first team retrospective as new manager — 5 concrete action items, all owned

Grew team NPS from 6 to 9.2 over 2 quarters

Reduced sprint planning from 3 hours to 45 minutes by pre-grooming tickets

Led cross-functional product review with design, eng, and PM — aligned in one session

Conducted skip-level 1:1s with all 8 engineers — 4 recurring themes surfaced

Ran first team retrospective as new manager — 5 concrete action items, all owned

Resolved conflict between two senior engineers about system design direction

Coached engineer X from junior to first solo feature ship in 6 weeks

Resolved conflict between two senior engineers about system design direction

Reduced sprint planning from 3 hours to 45 minutes by pre-grooming tickets