What I'm Working on Now
In the spirit of Derek Siver's Now page, here is what I'm up to at the moment:
Updated on January 24th, 2026
I've been at a new position as engineering manager at Recidiviz for almost 6 months now. Learning lots about the criminal justice system, meaningful impact in recidivism and navigating a new company that embodies all the common (and I say this with affection) dysfunction of the non-profit sector and startups rolled into one. No shortage of opportunities to make things better though! Been fun and I'm learning.
🗣️ I gave a presentation at LeadDev NYC 2025 about my experience as a director engineering and challenge I ran into. First time speaking after 5+ years (!!) after doing so much speaking in the late 2010s. Felt good!
‼️ Started a side project (tenatively called EngViz) that I've launched in super-alpha stealth mode, on a stealth domain: engleader.tools (Update: also not-so-stealth at engviz.com). It's something I built to surface metrics and breakdowns of an engineering org's way of working that help me lead thoughtfully by leveraging GitHub data. The goal is to fill-in the gaps in the story.
- If you found this page you're probably the kind of person I'd be intersted in having as an alpha customer. Please reach out!
A quick video demonstrating a concept from the landing page:
A snapshot of a repo overview page:
A snapshot of an AI team optimization feature that tries to suggest how to structure your work based on what you're actually doing:
