Why I Joined Upbound

I ran product management for all developer products at Google Cloud, and I joined Heroku as the 9th employee and first product hire. Now, I am joining Upbound. We have a huge market opportunity, a huge wave, and we're doing it in a way technically that I love.…

Riding the Pendulum

The Engineer/Manager Pendulum is a concept that Charity Majors popularized in 2017. This year, I took time to reflect on how I ended up swinging on this pendulum and why I chose to follow my current arc with Upbound.…

We’re Not Hiring A Bunch of Quarterbacks!

“Sumbry’s Philosophy on building a great engineering team.” “We’re hiring a team of rockstars!” Every time I hear that quote, I cringe. Now while that phrase normally compares hiring at a startup to starting a band I’m going to adjust this analogy to a sports one, specifically…