Marcus Chen (@marcus-chen)

Marcus Chen@marcus-chen

VP Engineering. Scaled 3 teams from 5 to 50+. Leadership is a craft.

0 outcomes·44 followers·43 following·31dcurrent streak(best: 40d)·16 proofs

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Jun 13teams-lead-engineering-team

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

Jun 11teams-lead-engineering-team

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

Jun 10teams-lead-engineering-team

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

Jun 8teams-lead-engineering-team

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

Jun 8teams-lead-engineering-team

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

Jun 7teams-lead-engineering-team

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

Jun 7teams-lead-engineering-team

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

Jun 7teams-lead-engineering-team

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

Jun 6teams-lead-engineering-team

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

Jun 3teams-lead-engineering-team

Grew team NPS from 6 to 9.2 over 2 quarters

Jun 2teams-lead-engineering-team

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

Jun 1teams-lead-engineering-team

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

May 27teams-lead-engineering-team

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

May 27teams-lead-engineering-team

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

May 19teams-lead-engineering-team

Resolved conflict between two senior engineers about system design direction

May 15teams-lead-engineering-team

Resolved conflict between two senior engineers about system design direction

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