CTOs, VPs, EMs and tech leads who made engineers better.
“She turned a team that dreaded standups into one that actually talked to each other. No framework, just trust.”
“Said 'that's my call, not yours' the one time a deploy broke. Took the heat so the intern didn't.”
“She blocked a launch to protect the on-call team's weekend. First manager who treated burnout as a real bug.”
“He gave me the hardest problem on the team and the air cover to fail at it twice before I got it right.”