Scaling a High-Performance Engineering Team

​Join us and Mark Roddy for Essence VC’s upcoming workshop ⚙️📈

​​You assembled an incredible team of engineers who care deeply about your users, take full ownership of their work, and ship product like their lives depend on it. They were essential to finding PMF, but now you’re ready to scale up. How do you grow your team without sacrificing the culture of achievement that got you here?

​​This session will explore why scaling headcount, especially quickly, can push teams from a culture of high impact to sluggish and unreliable execution. And most importantly, what you can do to prevent it.

​Agenda

• ​Maintaining a high-performance engineering culture as you scale

• ​The core dynamics that enable high performance in early-stage engineering teams

• ​How scaling impacts these dynamics, often in subtle but costly ways

• ​Concrete ways leaders can counter these forces and preserve real velocity

• ​Q&A with Mark Roddy

​Speaker

​Mark Roddy is a Fractional VP of Engineering specializing in early-stage data, infrastructure, and AI startups. He helps technical founders navigate the non-technical side of running an engineering team through coaching, advisement, and hands-on leadership as a fractional VP of Engineering.

​​Mark has spent 20+ years leading engineering teams at venture-backed startups. He previously founded Opterview, the DevOps and SRE interview platform, where he served as cofounder and CEO. His extensive experience across Seed to Series C environments gives him a practical understanding of what breaks, and how to fix it, as engineering organizations grow.