Location: Seattle
Remote: Sure
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Python 2.6 &amp; 3.7, Django 1.6 &amp; 1.8 &amp; 2.1, Flask, SQLAlchemy, pytest, git, Mercurial, some Kubernetes and Docker. Willing and able to learn anything.
Résumé/CV: Available on request
Email: ceo at dagan.enterprises
I’m an experienced software dev who’s looking to get hired into his first dev management position. I’m a calm, empathetic, meticulous communicator with a shrewd sense of what’s important to succeed as a business.  I love mentoring and teaching, so if you’ve got junior engineers with big ambitions, I can grow them into first-class developers. I’ve “grown up” in the startup world, so I have a knack for balancing competing priorities: reliability vs. shipping speed; team focus vs. bus-factor; work-life balance vs. business objectives; trust vs. oversight. I have the judgment that it takes to navigate these tensions and lead teams of happy developers that create quality software.
If all that sounds like a lot of hubris from someone with no formal management experience, just know that I deleted about fifty “I think”s and “people say”s from the above paragraph. That said, I do honestly and earnestly believe I’m qualified for a management role. My last company would agree; I spent years as the management “heir apparent” at my last job. Unfortunately, the timing was wrong when the position opened up (see: <a href="), and I missed my chance. Now I’m on the lookout for a new opportunity.
I understand and appreciate that companies are reluctant to take a chance on an unproven manager. Your people are your most valuable resource, so it’s appropriate to be conservative about who you’ll entrust them to. All I can do is invite you to vet me as thoroughly as you’d like. You’ll find that my temperament and skills are well-suited for the role.
PS: I want to do management as my full-time job, so dev lead, sorta-manager-but-also-IC, or "we'll hire you as an SDE and then re-evaluate in X months" offers will be politely declined :)