Here’s a vulnerable post - I am finding myself at a new intersection in my career, that I am really excited about. This will be my first ever LinkedIn post, which as a standalone statement may be enough to reflect these crossroads.

To surface the lead, I am shifting into software consulting in order to serve product & engineering teams through de-risking launches and reducing cross-functional thrashing.

I will be joining engineering leaders and teams as an initiative partner.

This is a way for me to merge over a decade of sincere contemplative and relational practices with my love for technology, building and working in a team.

I want to have conversations with leaders and managers of tech teams. If you are dealing with any of this, I’d love to talk:

• Launches slipping due to shifting priorities / scope churn
• Unclear ownership across product/design/engineering
• Tech debt slowing shipping and causing frustration in your ICs
• Migrations/replatforming where coordination is the real bottleneck
• ICs starting to burn out

This isn’t to sell you anything, but purely for me to begin to see where the needs are within my network and how I can serve.

If you’d like to continue reading, below is deeper context into what I’ve been navigating the past few years.

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I am trying to be a bridge.

Throughout my time working corporate more and more I saw that many of the issues that engineering faced were not technical and instead were relational. My primary contribution was easing this friction.

I can do the usual IC things—ship features, design systems, break complexity down into clear tickets, revitalize legacy systems, etc, etc.

But really, the place I consistently over-delivered on was in the ways in which I was able to bring people together and empowering them to act as one body moving towards a single goal. This continually led to projects and work that not only finished on time but the inevitable hiccups and difficulties being navigated in a way that felt spacious and easeful. This effect was compounding, lasting and created a really nice work environment that extended far beyond myself.

For as long as I’ve been writing software, I’ve also been meditating and learning how to relate better with myself and others. I annually spend time living in Buddhist monasteries all the while I still find myself reading Hacker News, building side projects, and helping friends with their startups. I know that these worlds aren’t separate, as they have been deeply informing me for much of my life.

The impact of deep listening, clear communication and the ability to zoom out of “I”, “Me”, “Mine” and into “We”, “Us” is extremely powerful, and contagious when building. It’s my biggest contribution to teams I’ve been on, and I aim to bring this to you.

If this resonates with you, if we’ve worked together, if you lead teams in software, please reach out; I’d love to chat.