Engineering Leadership
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What People Say
“Jono is the manager every engineer hopes to work for at least once in their career.”
“Jono may be the most talented technologist I've worked with in my long career.”
“Jono has been my greatest professional accelerant. He provided the framework I needed to grow into a technology leader.”
“A natural born leader ... working with Jono was a masterclass in drive with insane depth of knowledge.”
“Jono excels at building teams and solutions from zero to one.”
“Jono propels any team he is a part of.”
Latest Writing
Why the Best Engineering Leaders Never Leave the Craft
Every leadership book tells you to let go, delegate, step back. That's terrible advice. 15 years of building engineering teams taught me the moment you stop understanding how your systems break, you lose the ability to make good decisions about them.
What Actually Builds Teams That Work
15 years of building engineering teams taught me that culture isn’t what you put on a slide. It’s what happens when the deadline moves up and nobody’s watching.
Here's What Breaks First
Agentic commerce isn't a 2030 problem. It's a 2026 problem with a 2015 backend. I've spent over a decade building commerce platforms. Here's what actually breaks when an autonomous agent tries to shop yours.