Tom Woolway

Engineering leader at Ambrook. Running, cycling. Significant other of @jessw. He/him.

[Tom Woolway @tomwoolway]

(7/7) We’re hiring people who can both push us forward on technology, but hold the strange math of the existential shift that engineers are experiencing right now. If you’re an EM or a TL who cares about GSD and their people, we should talk. My DMs are open.

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(6/7) We’re rejecting the span of control increase. We’re organizing as lean, customer focused pods led by TLs, focused on a specific problem or group of customers. EMs will coach people, even as the pods they are on change.

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(5/7) It’s also crazy important to actually understand the changes by building yourself. Not toy projects on the weekend - this is part of the role.

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(1/7) For many years, the role of an Engineering Manager (EM) has been pretty common across companies. Some looked for leaders who were more or less technical, but the focus has always been people, process and tech.

Now, there’s not even agreement on what’s important: 🧵

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(4/7) Leading engineers who are already on the team through this change, and hiring folks with the raw horsepower and entrepreneurialism to thrive in this environment is more important than ever, and doesn’t take less time.

[Tom Woolway @tomwoolway]

@nyrr your tracking app is yet again not working on the biggest day of the year. Is there a way to help avoid this issue next year?

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Very happy to announce our Series A, led by Thrive Capital and @zoink. After a week visiting our amazing customers and farms across the country, super happy that we get to continue building for them. https://t.co/Q4KEvf8N4H

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And the impersonator has finally been suspended. Thanks to everyone who let me know and sorry if you've had weird-ass conversations with "me".

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This is still going on - doesn't seem to be anyone responding to trust and safety reports anymore. Please take care if someone purporting to be me DMs you.

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Hey friends, there is a spammer using a very similar screen name to mine (with an underscore). Apologies if you’ve been contacted. It has been reported.

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@bindi @PinkGoesWink Sorry Bindi :-(

[Tom Woolway @tomwoolway]

Hey friends, there is a spammer using a very similar screen name to mine (with an underscore). Apologies if you’ve been contacted. It has been reported.

[Tom Woolway @tomwoolway]

@AbhiMathur_ @Twitter @elonmusk @Tesla Seriously? There's a slim chance that @Twitter stays up long enough for him to hire some sadomasochistic engineers and for them to be able to get up to speed on a ridiculously complex system. But that is a pure gamble, and it seems to have been completely unnecessary.

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@jimio Best security team ever. Also a pretty damn good UI TBH

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@rlotun you still got that code for the shadow network so we can switch @TweetDeck over? Cc: @iaindodsworth

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@natez0r Enjoy your break, Nate. Sorry it ended like this.

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@Cennydd zing. Most of my followers are people who wanted to complain about TweetDeck circa 2009.

[Tom Woolway @tomwoolway]

@Cennydd you held back before? ;-p

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@Gilbo Gilbo, you're a legend and I'm sure will land somewhere great. Thanks for all you did for Twitter.