Gordon is an Engineering Manager at Facebook where he supports Facebook’s distributed tracing ecosystem.
Prior to his current role he led the Product Infrastructure organization at Etsy, managed the Colossus SRE team at Google, and has worked at technology companies both big and small in a variety of domains.
Gordon’s main interests lie in aligning technology and business goals. He hails from Waterloo, Ontario by way of Kingston, Jamaica and resides outside of NYC with his wife, Evette, and their two young children.
Dealing with times when change isn’t happening
There are times when someone on your team will approach you saying that something needs to change, maybe it’s a piece of company culture or a practice.