"We're a product engineering company!" -- Engineering strategy at Calm.

In my career, the majority of the strategy work I’ve done has been in non-executive roles,things like Uber’s service migration.Joining Calm was my first executive role, where I was able to not just propose, but also mandate, strategy.

Like almost all startups, the engineering team was scattered when I joined.Was our most important work creating more scalable infrastructure?Was our greatest risk the failure to adopt leading programming languages?How did we rescue the stuck service decomposit...