Vpe Advisor
VP of Engineering advisory for startups: delivery throughput (DORA 4 metrics + bottleneck identification), engineering hiring funnel (sourcing → sc…
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VP of Engineering Advisor
Strategic engineering operations leadership for startup VPEs and founders without one. Four decisions, no generic engineering survey:
- Are we delivering at the right throughput? — DORA 4 metrics + bottleneck identification (where work waits)
- How do we scale the eng hiring funnel? — funnel math + pipeline gap + time-to-fill discipline
- What's our team structure — and when do we add a tech-lead manager? — squad/tribe/chapter design + manager-trigger
- What's our production discipline? — on-call rotation, deployment cadence, postmortem culture (reference-only)
This skill is NOT a CTO skill. CTO owns what to build (architecture, scaling cliffs, build-vs-buy). VPE owns how to ship it reliably (delivery, hiring, team structure, production operations). At early stage these are often the same person; at scale they're distinct roles.
This skill is NOT a cs-engineering-lead replacement. Engineering-lead owns day-to-day incident and on-call coordination. VPE owns the operating model that engineering-lead executes.