A technology consulting company for the modern age. I am happy to announce my new venture Tenger Ways, a consulting company designed to help organizations get more value from technology. My co-founder, Daniel, and I weren’t planning on starting a company together. …

This is an excerpt from an essay I wrote last year for an art project about parenting philosophies, about how our actions as parents often veer far away from our values and ideals. Parenting Philosophy If you ask me about my parenting philosophy, I have a very simple answer: the goal of…

Years before the covid pandemic made virtual the norm, I led a successful geographically dispersed software development team. In this post, I’ll share 5 tips for creating an engaged, motivated and high performing team. A friend and former colleague asked me for a favor this week. Would I meet a…

Last week I attended my first in-person DevOps Enterprise Summit, aka DOES, in Las Vegas, and it was an incredible experience. The Devops Enterprise Summit is a technology conference organized by IT Revolution for leaders of large, complex organizations. …

How adopting experimentation helped a software engineering team successfully shift from annual to quarterly planning. I was fortunate enough to be working at an enterprise SaaS company during a multi-year, large scale devops and modernization initiative, as we shifted from onprem hosting to public cloud, from manual testing and deployments…

If you’re considering taking Patrick Collins’ Web3, Full Stack Solidity, Smart Contract & Blockchain — Beginner to Expert ULTIMATE Course | Javascript Edition 32 hour course here are 7 things to know before jumping in. Last week I finished Patrick Collins’ massive 32-hour full stack web3 developer course. Patrick says…

If it feels like the internet is full of the same content being copied over and over again, you may want to consider a hidden benefit to regurgitating content. — A friend recently shared a draft blog post he wrote about introducing agile, lean and DevOps practices within well-established organizations. It was a brilliant and thoughtful piece. …

Can the world of traditional IT be transformed into a high-performing, high-impact function by adopting modern DevOps engineering practices? The answer is, of course, YES. This blog is the story about how I was able to test this hypothesis when I pivoted from Engineering to Enterprise IT in mid-2021. The Opportunity I…

I started working with AWS and my first cloud transformation in 2018, but 2021 was my first re:Invent. Here’s a slightly edited version of my recap & reflections that I shared with my team internally. Conference Summary November 29 — December 1, Venetian, Las Vegas, NV Goals (achieved 3 of the 4…