Marcus Chen
@marcus-chen
VP Engineering. Scaled 3 teams from 5 to 50+. Leadership is a craft.
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16 proofs · 26 weeksProven across 1 domain
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Marcus Chen is building their record on Powstik.Marcus Chen is building their record on Powstik.
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Coached engineer X from junior to first solo feature ship in 6 weeks
Led incident retrospective after production outage — RCA completed, no blame
Conducted skip-level 1:1s with all 8 engineers — 4 recurring themes surfaced
Coached engineer X from junior to first solo feature ship in 6 weeks
Hired first engineer — structured process from JD to offer in 3 weeks
Reduced sprint planning from 3 hours to 45 minutes by pre-grooming tickets
Ran first team retrospective as new manager — 5 concrete action items, all owned
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
Grew team NPS from 6 to 9.2 over 2 quarters
Conducted skip-level 1:1s with all 8 engineers — 4 recurring themes surfaced
Led incident retrospective after production outage — RCA completed, no blame
Hired first engineer — structured process from JD to offer in 3 weeks
Reduced sprint planning from 3 hours to 45 minutes by pre-grooming tickets
Resolved conflict between two senior engineers about system design direction
Resolved conflict between two senior engineers about system design direction
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