Perhaps you, like me, started as a developer with the same thought: writing code should be 100% of the job. It isn’t. Code is only a part of what we do.

I’m Jordan Krey, Head of Engineering at RentRedi. Before that I led engineering at SingleOps and Buildium. For more than 20 years I have helped engineers grow, into management or deeper on the technical track.

What I believe:

• You own your career. Your manager’s job is to help you get there.
• Teams without conflict fail together. Argue about the problem, not the person.
• Customer value is the point. If it doesn’t help the people who use it, it isn’t done.
• Own the outcome. And the quality of every line you ship, whoever wrote it.

kreyz.com (pronounced “crazy”) is where I write about career growth: what has worked, what hasn’t, and projects when I have them.

Start with The Software Engineer’s Feature Set, The Art of Estimation or Are you managing your stakeholders? Or find me on LinkedIn.

Thank you for reading!