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What I learned the hard way: Lessons and insights from an entrepreneurial journey. Founder of ShiftLeft , exGoogle and exVMware engineer shares from his experience.

Vlad A. Ionescu
Building something new. Founder of ShiftLeft. Creator of Lever OS. Ex Google. Ex VMware. Co-author RabbitMQ Erlang client. https://twitter.com/VladAIonescu
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Introducing Earthly: build automation for the container era
We live in an era of continuous delivery, containers, automation, rich set of programming languages, varying code structures…

Lessons Learned The Hard Way
In early 2020, ShiftLeft, the company I helped build from scratch has reached product-market fit, roughly three years after its inception…

Another 28 Engineering Management Lessons
As a continuation to the previous 44 Engineering Management Lessons, here are some more.

My Version of 44 Engineering Management Lessons
As I was researching good engineering management practices in the early days of ShiftLeft, I found a gem of a blog post: 44 engineering…

Don’t let your engineers go to waste
Usually, when you talk about optimizing a system, you think about making it use less memory, less CPU, less bandwidth, less battery etc…

The Startup’s Hierarchy of Needs
The most value I got from going through an incubator (AngelPad) was the basic startup education. If you’re doing a startup for the first…

How to Bootstrap Engineering in a Startup — Part 3: Tooling and Processes
Bootstrapping tooling and processes in a newly formed Engineering team.

How to bootstrap Engineering in a startup — Part 2: Outsourcing, Culture, First-time Leader
The moment you have your first few hires showing up at work, you’re now in a different challenge: how do you build a lasting culture…

How to bootstrap an Engineering team in a startup
The Engineering team, in many startups, is a killer differentiator. If anything, a team can make or break a product, even before you look…

Shifting Security to the Left
Code and code development processes have changed a lot in the last 10 years. We now have wonders like containers, CI/CD, DevOps, chaos…
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