Episode 24: Designing Team APIs as a manager of managers and more with Jess Mink
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Episode 24: Designing Team APIs as a manager of managers and more with Jess Mink
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Although currently Director of Platform Engineering, Jess Mink is an unusual manager of manager in tech, who’s also played a full-time product role. Listen to this episode as they explain what they took away from that experience, their perspective on how engineering managers differ from other managers, and share their managing manager roles change across different organisations and contexts.
Guest Biography:
Jess is passionate about building strong, productive technical organizations that are focused on outcomes. While some people are fascinated by architecting code Jess loves to understand and debug human systems. Developer tools and health tech companies speak to them and despite seeking engineering roles they have a habit of taking on product roles when needed. They've worked at companies such as Auth0, FOLX and Amazon and held roles from Director of Engineering to VP of Product. They are currently Director of Platform Engineering at Honeycomb.io. In their spare time they volunteer doing Search and Rescue.
Episode and show notes: https://managingmanagers.tech/episodes/episode-024-jess-mink/