I just married him for the tax benefits.
Shon has built a team of extremely talented individual contributors who can quickly get up to speed on nearly any engineering initiative across the company and execute on delivery with minimal overhead and onboarding time.
Your room is filthy! Pick up your clothes!
Pairing with ICs on other teams is common practice for Shon, and a behaviour I'd like to see him continue to model for other Engineering Leads and senior leaders at [REDACTED].
Personally, I kind of hate him.
In my estimation, Shon has shown more business impact than any Engineering Lead at [REDACTED] in the last six months.
I don't see what the big deal is...
Shon's team was given the difficult task of getting [REDACTED] out in time for RSA, and Shon co-ordinated across dozens of stakeholders with an unruly architecture, codebase, and deployment process to make it work and set the foundation of [REDACTED] for years to come. I don't think any other Engineering Lead at [REDACTED] could have pulled off a similar feat in under six months.
My least favorite son-in-law!
Keep doing what you are doing.
A servant leader, Shon often takes on the difficult or, in some cases, boring work so that his team can focus on learning opportunities, career development, interesting tasks, or high-profile initiatives. In my mind, this has the dual benefit of accelerating the growth of those directly under his influence while also scaling out the team since the less glamorous initiatives tend to be those that reduce engineering toil (Sentry, CI/CD, or interfacing with the SRE team and infrastructure)