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Dan Blundell

@danblundell

Engineering Director @gymshark. Views my own. Builder of technical teams. Student of leadership and engineering chaos. Dad. Tamer of tantrums. He/him.

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First conference in person for two years tomorrow. To say I’m excited to meet folks at #awssummit London is an understatement Come say hi, I’ll be somewhere between hyper extrovert and burned out introvert but I promise you I’ll welcome you however you show up

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Call for papers extended specifically for female speakers. We had over 90 applicants, only four of which were women. Technical speakers (development talks) and business speakers are wanted here.

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Even the incidents that don’t impact the end-user can provide juicy learning opportunities. Vanessa Huerta Granda covers these “near-misses” and why we love them: jeli.io/blog/oops-that…

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Another fascinating episode from Getting There Podcast on last years Roblox outage. Hard to grasp just how drained the teams must’ve been over such a long period of time. I finished up with so many questions for our own teams. Go take a listen for yourself open.spotify.com/episode/4ZpX9N…

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Love this from Laura J Hyatt I’m having a 50/50 day. Buzzing from a Game Day yesterday but loads of people on leave that would usual help fix things so the extra brain drain is quite grounding. 3 things are broken that should not be, I am scrambling to learn how to fix them. 🙌🏻

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On the eleventh day of Incident-mas, my Jeli pals sent to me An introduction to discovering themes and takeaways from your analysis (let’s pipe all this analysis and discussion into insights!) jeli.io/blog/intro-to-…

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If I were anywhere near Denver in 9 days time, I’d be at this. If you can be in Denver in 9 days time, go to this. Learn from some of the best and insightful folks around

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The good kind of tech debt and why it’s important to solve the hard problems first. Jon Thornton with a wonderfully focused talk on how to do tech debt right at #leaddevnyc

The good kind of tech debt and why it’s important to solve the hard problems first. <a href="/jonrthornton/">Jon Thornton</a> with a wonderfully focused talk on how to do tech debt right at #leaddevnyc
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Incidents: we should ask our selves the question “why did it make sense to do that?” #leaddevnyc Nora Jones on how we can learn so much from from incidents by collaborating and taking the time to dig deeper, it can ultimately make us better leaders and find opportunities 🙏🏻

Incidents: we should ask our selves the question “why did it make sense to do that?” #leaddevnyc 

<a href="/nora_js/">Nora Jones</a> on how we can learn so much from from incidents by collaborating and taking the time to dig deeper, it can ultimately make us better leaders and find opportunities 🙏🏻
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The final thanks of LeadDev should totally go out to David Yee for being such an engaged host 🙏🏻 incredible job and ability to join dots and reference so inclusively #leaddevnyc

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“Operating as a staff engineer is as much of a leadership role as being a manager” - IBK Ajila of Shopify Engineering Fascinating to hear staff engineers were asking for development areas in leadership as managers were; 1:1s, feedback, alignment etc #leadingengnyc LeadDev

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Can completely vouch for this, learning about the people around you through shared language and understanding gives so much context for trust and confidence to build between you ❤️#leadingengnyc

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Don’t miss Dan Blundell from Gymshark at #LeadingEngLondon on June 29 with his talk on ‘The framework of you: Strategies beyond a growth mindset.’ Together, you’ll explore ways to understand yourself and your own capabilities!

Don’t miss <a href="/danblundell/">Dan Blundell</a> from Gymshark at #LeadingEngLondon on June 29 with his talk on ‘The framework of you: Strategies beyond a growth mindset.’ Together, you’ll explore ways to understand yourself and your own capabilities!
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Excited to be joining a stellar line up in a few weeks time, incredible content throughout #LeadDevLondon, #StaffPlusLondon and #LeadingEngLondon thanks to the folks at LeadDev

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Full admiration of the design on bfcm.shopify.com this year and then find out that of course it’s brilliant, @StrangeNative was involved. Having followed Russ’ work for _years_ it was joyful to love it and only realise afterwards who’s detailed attention was all over it