I am a fractional engineering lead. I join teams when a system needs to change and the permanent team cannot safely absorb the work: billing, revenue, usage metering, scale, or a delivery problem that is now blocking everything else.
I also work alongside founders building their first product. I work inside your team for a defined period, from decisions through implementation, tests, deployment, and handoff. As we build, I help develop the team that will own the software.
My work includes billing and revenue systems at New Relic and Netlify, customer-feedback systems at Apple, engineering leadership at Atlassian, products with founders at Scout Fuel, and performance work at Staffing Referrals. I maintain DSPy.rb, write about technical decisions in the blog, and explain the work in talks.
At Apple, I helped the team move from fortnightly releases to daily delivery. At Netlify, I’m building a billing ledger while helping the team establish who owns it and how they’ll operate it.
I want people to understand why we made a decision, know how to change the system, and feel able to tackle the next problem. That work starts while we’re building, well before the handoff.
Lately, I’ve been exploring how teams can use AI to build useful software while keeping a shared understanding of what they’re building. I test those ideas in client work, open-source projects, and my own product experiments.
Outside work, I sail, cycle, and read.
If you’re building something or your team needs help moving it forward, tell me what you’re trying to do and where you’re stuck. Email me at hey@vicente.services.
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