In my own words…
Rewarding Resilience: Rust & the U.S. National Cybersecurity Strategy
More often than not, technology manufacturers are releasing new products with security that is “no worse than before,” but the shortcomings of our past cannot be the goal for our future.
Campaigns
After losing the 2008 election for South Carolina’s second congressional district by just 26,000 votes with a largely self-funded campaign and a staff of mostly family and friends, Rob and I decided to invest in a professional second run in the 2010 cycle. We carefully selected a top tier campaign manager, and she spent months…
Project Management
Project management (PM) is tragically misunderstood, and the growing size and complexity of our software development projects demands mastery of this artform. Effective management of modern projects requires throwing out the old PM guidebooks in favor of an extreme approach that can make tenured leaders uneasy. When I was hired as a Technical Program Manager…
Team Building
I’ve had a pretty unconventional career path. I started by dropping out of high school at sixteen to focus on my college courses. After I finished my masters in math, I took a role building common fintech software components. Years later, when I was promoted to principal engineer (PE), the idea of extending the software…
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About Me
Hi, I’m Shane! My pronouns are she/her, and I build technology nations. All of the opinions expressed on this blog are my own.
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