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The operational engineer

With 20 years in tech and early-stage startups, I comment on the life of a tech leader in companies big and small

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Fractional CEOs and me

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Enter the operational engineer

I'm super stoked to start publishing here, I've been keen to share some of my learnings of the years as a tech leader in north america across a number of small startups. This is my story.

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This is The operational engineer.