The best compliment I ever got at work was from a senior business leader who told me I was unique among technologists because I explained technology to her in a way that made her smarter and helped her make better business decisions and I didn't talk down to her. This came in the context of a multi-year, multi-million dollar program to completely change the main revenue source for the entire company. So you know, no pressure or anything. As a technology leader, it's not what I know that counts - it's what I can help others understand and ultimately apply that makes the difference. In my current role, I lead the entire technology function for a globally distributed, remote only, 50-person B2B SaaS company. I'm responsible for everything to do with technology: budgeting, strategy, architecture, engineering, infrastructure and operations, and staff development and performance management.The things I love to do at work:* Coach and develop managers* Take companies to the cloud!* Optimize engineering effectiveness and efficiency* Create and communicate technology strategy and visionI'm a fervent believer in fundamentals. As a manager, those fundamentals are building relationships, giving feedback, coaching, and delegating. It's not my job to tell others what to do. Instead, it's to work with my engineering managers to set goals, communicate context, provide support, and create an environment where they can coach and lead their teams. I love to talk about cloud architecture and engineering. Currently I'm leading an 18-month migration of our entire data center to Azure. I drafted and pitched the business case to my peers on the executive team and am now providing guidance and oversight as our engineering managers and teams execute on it. A few accomplishments I'm proud of:* Improved product availability from 98% to >99.9% with no additional infrastructure spending* Reduced engineering lead time by 50% while reducing active critical defects by over 75%* Completed our first customer-facing workload migration from data center to Azure* Developed "strongest IT team in company's history" according to CEOSkills: Creating High-Performing Teams | Coaching and Staff Development | Strategic Planning and Implementation | Enterprise Architecture | People Leadership | Change ManagementArchitecture: Microservices | Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) | APIs | Event-Driven Architecture | Message Queueing | Serverless | Event Streaming | Cloud Native