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I’m excited and honored to share that I have joined the Board of Directors of Kitsap Credit Union. Credit unions play an important role in…
I’m excited and honored to share that I have joined the Board of Directors of Kitsap Credit Union. Credit unions play an important role in…
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I'm excited to present at this upcoming FlutterCon along with Rodrigo Máximo. We love Flutter at Nu!
I'm excited to present at this upcoming FlutterCon along with Rodrigo Máximo. We love Flutter at Nu!
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After five years at Aumni, I'm making the jump into independent consulting. I've spent the last decade helping engineering teams build reliable…
After five years at Aumni, I'm making the jump into independent consulting. I've spent the last decade helping engineering teams build reliable…
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Just wrapped up our North America Cyber QBR. Looking at these photos, it’s hard not to reflect on how much can change in two years. I joined…
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AI will result in a 3 day work week. No it won’t. Productivity tools, AI included, don’t free up time so much as they invite more demands on it…
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It's not official until Utah Valley University gives you the diploma!
It's not official until Utah Valley University gives you the diploma!
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I was recently impacted by layoffs at JPMorgan following the acquisition of the startup I had been working with. I’m now exploring new opportunities…
I was recently impacted by layoffs at JPMorgan following the acquisition of the startup I had been working with. I’m now exploring new opportunities…
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I'm recruiting for a couple AI security roles right now, and one thing keeps coming up: companies are starting to prioritize AI security in a real…
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I joined JPMorgan Chase & Co. thinking my job was to build walls. Firewalls. Access controls. Threat models. Keep the bad stuff out. Protect the…
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Launch night for the JSL with my editing team: Aurora LaPorte, Alora Temple, and Natalie Nye. We did it! Polaroids courtesy of Star R.
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Tomorrow marks my last day at Aumni, JPMorgan Chase Co. company and I've been reflecting on what an incredible journey it has been. During my time…
Tomorrow marks my last day at Aumni, JPMorgan Chase Co. company and I've been reflecting on what an incredible journey it has been. During my time…
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Today was the final day of Aumni for our customers and therefore the cybersecurity team. It’s been great learning and leading cybersecurity for…
Today was the final day of Aumni for our customers and therefore the cybersecurity team. It’s been great learning and leading cybersecurity for…
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A few months ago, I shared that I was moving into a new role at JPMorgan after wrapping up my time at Aumni. I've since decided to step away from…
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Stefan Brink
If I had to describe why programming has always essentially been fun for me, I couldn’t put it better than Frederick Brooks: “Why is programming fun? What delights may its practitioner expect as his reward? First is the sheer joy of making things. As the child delights in his first mud pie, so the adult enjoys building things, especially things of his own design. I think this delight must be an image of God’s delight in making things, a delight shown in the distinctness and newness of each leaf and each snowflake. Second is the pleasure of making things that are useful to other people. Deep within, we want others to use our work and to find it helpful. In this respect the programming system is not essentially different from the child’s first clay pencil holder “for Daddy’s office.” Third is the fascination of fashioning complex puzzle-like objects of interlocking moving parts and watching them work in subtle cycles, playing out the consequences of principles built in from the beginning. The programmed computer has all the fascination of the pinball machine or the jukebox mechanism, carried to the ultimate. Fourth is the joy of always learning, which springs from the nonrepeating nature of the task. In one way or another the problem is ever new, and its solver learns something; sometimes practical, sometimes theoretical, and sometimes both. Finally, there is the delight of working in such a tractable medium. The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures. Yet the program construct, unlike the poet’s words, is real in the sense that it moves and works, producing visible outputs separate from the construct itself. It prints results, draws pictures, produces sounds, moves arms. The magic of myth and legend has come true in our time. One types the correct incantation on a keyboard and a display screen comes to life, showing things that never were nor could be. Programming then is fun because it gratifies creative longings built deep within us and delights sensibilities we have in common with all men.”
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Kieran Jack
We were in "Go-Live" mode for a major enterprise roll-out, and the tension was palpable. The delivery team was firing on all cylinders. We were identifying issues and shipping fixes within hours. On paper, we were a textbook example of a high-performing, agile unit. The reality was far more frustrating. Every fix we produced sat in a queue for ten days, waiting for a weekly review to grant approval. We had a mounting backlog of solved problems that were easier to build than release. The business was growing increasingly vocal about the "slow" pace of fixes. Ironically, the very stakeholders complaining about the delay were the ones maintaining the manual sign-off process. It was a clear case of an organisation wanting the speed of agile delivery without committing to agile governance. I realised my job wasn't to "manage the devs" more closely; it was to manage the organisational friction. I had to prove that their "safety" process was actually increasing risk by bloating our release sizes and delaying critical functionality fixes. We eventually negotiated a "Fast-Track" governance model for post-launch support, but the lesson stayed with me. You cannot claim to be an agile organisation if your decision-making cycles are longer than your development cycles. Have you ever seen "Agile" delivery killed by "Waterfall" governance?
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