Making the Transition: From Engineering Leader Back to Developer
A guide for engineering managers considering a return to hands-on development work.
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Greetings!
I'm Dave Loftesness / dloft. I enjoy building things: products, systems, tools, teams, relationships, careers.
Recent Posts
View all posts →The Engineer's Guide to Management: Lessons from the First 90 Days
For engineers transitioning into a management role, what to expect and how to prepare.
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Scaling Startups Without Creating Silos: Hard-Won Lessons
How to maintain team cohesion and prevent organizational factions during rapid startup growth.
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Featured Projects
View all projects →eero WiFi Platform
Led engineering for the mesh WiFi system that Amazon acquired in 2019, handling hardware design, embedded software, and cloud infrastructure.
Embedded SystemsC/C++AWSMobile AppsHardware Design
Twitter Core Services Infrastructure
Built and scaled Twitter's infrastructure for serving tweets, timelines, and the social graph to billions of requests per day, ending the Fail Whale era.
Distributed SystemsJavaScalaMySQLMemcachedThrift