John Viner

Building Aigon — multi-agent orchestration for AI coding agents. Sen Labs. Previously Head of Eng Atlassian, Snr Director of Engineering Zendesk

[John Viner @veztek]

I'm back on X after some time away. I've been heads down building a spec-driven framework for AI development called Aigon — runs multiple AI coding agents in parallel, with an LLM-as-judge and other multi-agent workflows. More to come here on X. https://t.co/p6qE36RthC

[Francisco Trindade @frankmt]

Whenever I mention metrics about engineering management I get questions about which ones to track and how to make them useful. Here's my short practical guide to it:
https://t.co/9SnYeAKr4s

#techlead #vpeng #cto #engmanager #startups

[Eddie Sholl @eddiesholl]

Very cool position I'm hiring for. Experienced front end / JavaScript engineer? Come lead a team working on modular front ends at Zendesk. Letting lots of teams work on a unified UI, without coupling and deployment pain.

https://t.co/vuXJv1t0m2

[@micheleplayfair @MichelePlayfair]

Error budgets! Just heard about these as well (at #yowcto from @veztek ) and they're in @lizthegrey 's talk at #YOW19

[Adel Smee @adelsmee]

Zendesk MEL is hiring interns! Requirements = *no* commercial experience. Lotsa teams are hiring so heaps of opportunity to learn the trade. Not sure if you’re ready? DM me and I'll reply: What've ya got to lose? https://t.co/IgEi1JBB7p @codelikeagirlau @GGDmelb @WWCodeMelbourne

[Travis Winters @travis_winters]

Working Agreements are also an effective way for a team to articulate their expectations of one another as well as others — stakeholders, dependants — without having to institute cumbersome process.

[John Viner @veztek]

@xzyfer Zendesk has a group called “Core Services” with about 5 dev teams handling those kinds of capabilities, supporting another 80 or so other product dev teams

[John Viner @veztek]

I enjoyed another great Yow CTO summit #YOWCTO18 today. Thanks to all the speakers.

[Marty Cagan @cagan]

just posted my theory on why I see so many teams that claim Agile and Lean, yet are getting results not substantially better than Waterfall: https://t.co/LlwrDCAMXI

[Charity Majors @mipsytipsy]

this piece on the @nytimes's kafka-backed architecture is a spectacular feat of technical writing, kudos. 😍 🌷 https://t.co/p6aHwYjrhd

[John Viner @veztek]

“The top 4 things I learned from launching a photo library on our subscription service” by Brett Elliott https://t.co/JmfpFIK1uW

[James Ross @jimmyjazz68]

Envato makes Huffington Post’s list of 25 companies leading the way on remote work https://t.co/M2VCZaifBR

[Troy Hunt @troyhunt]

Passwords have changed: Don't force composition rules. Don't force regular changes. Don't block password managers. https://t.co/BYuK0bIREF

[Brad Urani @bradurani]

Deep context and the 1 skull rule 💀

The Hard Thing About Software Development https://t.co/pu6Dp6J5eg

[tef @tef_ebooks]

after kicking up a fuss about message brokers a while back, i wrote something about the importance of protocol https://t.co/l9bRpOKcZW

[Marty Cagan @cagan]

just posted on one of my favorite discovery framing techniques: https://t.co/lCz2sKdRGs

[Gregor @ghohpe]

"Cloud is not an infrastructure topic" https://t.co/LLxuZ9Aqpp on @LinkedIn

[@micheleplayfair @MichelePlayfair]

I laughed at this way more than I should have

[Nigel Dalton @nxdnz]

No question, this lady is my absolute hero: https://t.co/iXxzF3qKjL #inventorship @hackday_rea

[Collis @collis]

"How I took a break from CEO’ing and worked on a Hack Week project" https://t.co/i0fZ59tDYK 🙂🙂🙂