Former VP of Engineering at Prisma, BlaBlaCar, and Chef Software. Ex R core contributor. I like to draw. @sfalcon@hachyderm.io
Minneapolis, MN
Joined July 2007
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A colleague asked for help working with remote teams across timezones. What are your top tips?
Mine:
- Think and manage overlap not timezone difference
- Send recap messages
- Use short recorded video
Seth Falcon (he/him) retweeted
We've been hard at work speeding up cold starts in #serverless applications using Prisma!
We're excited to say we've sped up cold start times by ~9x⚡️
Check out this blog post to see how we did it and get real insights into what affected those times:
prisma.io/blog/prisma-and-se…
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Hello 👋 I'm looking for my next challenge! I prefer smaller orgs (10-100), remote-first culture and Elixir/Erlang stacks. Love solving problems and helping others be their best selves❤️ Looking for eng leadership opportunities, can be hands-on.
RTs appreciated 🙏
If you've been told to "think big picture" and you are struggling to carve out time or make use of it to focus on strategy work, these notes could help you get unstuck.
sethfalcon.substack.com/p/st…
#engineeringmanagement #leadership #strategy
ALT Arial view of airport. Overlay text: Steps to Strategy, making time to think big picture.
Seth Falcon (he/him) retweeted
I am looking to angel invest in a couple startups that fit the following:
- Hard tech: either hardware or hardware adjacent
- Software doing something that has never been done before and would be hard for someone to replicate if you get there, something very hard.
If this is you please reach out because I might be interested :)
My value add would be general advice, any software infra help / hiring you need & of course overall optimism :)
🎉pooler has a new home and a new maintainer.
What's pooler? A connection pool library Erlang (or Elixir).
@seriyps thank you for reaching out and thanks for your work to make pooler available to those that find it useful!
github.com/epgsql/pooler
#erlang #elixir
It's amazing (and gratifying) to see code I put out into the world in 2010 still find use. Here's the first commit:
github.com/epgsql/pooler/com…
Its original name was pidq, playing off of a queue of Erlang process ids or pids.
Even when you aren’t directly involved in setting the vision at a company level, transmitting it is a fundamentally creative act. You’re telling a story about the future. Your job is to describe the world that could be.
#leadership #storytelling
The story carries us beyond what we know today acting as a bridge over uncertainty. Whether that bridge feels solid or shaky depends on our level of belief in the story.
I explored this story telling aspect of leading and what happens when your belief in the story dips here:
sethfalcon.substack.com/p/te…
This week I wrote about dealing with feeling overwhelmed at work. It's something we all experience, especially as engineering leaders.
What do you do when you find yourself in overwhelm mode?
sethfalcon.substack.com/p/ma…
#leadership
ALT a snowy trail with trees in morning light
Seth’s Substack: Don’t bring me problems, bring me solutions sethfalcon.substack.com/p/do…
Seth Falcon (he/him) retweeted
I’m hiring again at Honeycomb and this time I’m on the hunt for a director of product. This is a role I did for a number of years myself before becoming VP, so as you can imagine, I have THOUGHTS. 1/8
jobs.lever.co/honeycomb/231d…
Thanks @HackerIntro for the help sourcing candidates. We've just made our first hire @Prisma connected to the tool.
Join me at the #PrismaServerless Conference, November 18th. I just got my ticket, claim yours! You won't want to miss it 🔥 prisma.io/serverless/tickets…