Spencer is the VP Engineering at Privy, an ecommerce marketing platform for online brands that need to grow sales now. Spencer leads the distributed engineering teams at Privy. Prior to his role at Privy, he led the Commerce engineering team at at Mailchimp (acquired by Intuit), and led engineering at Reaction Commerce, a distributed-first company that created open source commerce software. Spencer lives in Colorado with his dog Sawyer.
Reducing the burden of incident response on your teams
Unlock system reliability through a culture of shared responsibility and collaboration
Critical components of successful delegation
This talk presents techniques to help you be prepared to delegate, sponsor, and coach your team in a way that empowers them to grow their careers and makes your load manageable.
Cracking the cadence of your software engineering 1:1s
One-to-ones provide perhaps your greatest opportunity to survey how well things are going with your team.
Crafting effective 1:1s for distributed engineering teams
Creating relationships with the individual humans on your distributed team is difficult since you rarely get to see them in person! But a team is much less likely to be effective and successful without a foundation of interpersonal relationships and trust.
