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Introducing Earthly: build automation for the container era

We live in an era of continuous delivery, containers, automation, rich set of programming languages, varying code structures…

3 min readApr 16, 2020

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Lessons Learned The Hard Way

In early 2020, ShiftLeft, the company I helped build from scratch has reached product-market fit, roughly three years after its inception…

6 min readApr 14, 2020

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Lessons Learned The Hard Way

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Another 28 Engineering Management Lessons

As a continuation to the previous 44 Engineering Management Lessons, here are some more.

6 min readApr 8, 2020

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Another 28 Engineering Management Lessons

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My Version of 44 Engineering Management Lessons

As I was researching good engineering management practices in the early days of ShiftLeft, I found a gem of a blog post: 44 engineering…

7 min readMar 31, 2020

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My Version of 44 Engineering Management Lessons

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Don’t let your engineers go to waste

Usually, when you talk about optimizing a system, you think about making it use less memory, less CPU, less bandwidth, less battery etc…

2 min readMar 24, 2020

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Don’t let your engineers go to waste

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The Startup’s Hierarchy of Needs

The most value I got from going through an incubator (AngelPad) was the basic startup education. If you’re doing a startup for the first…

3 min readMar 16, 2020

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The Startup’s Hierarchy of Needs

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How to Bootstrap Engineering in a Startup — Part 3: Tooling and Processes

Bootstrapping tooling and processes in a newly formed Engineering team.

7 min readMar 10, 2020

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How to bootstrap Engineering in a startup — Part 2: Outsourcing, Culture, First-time Leader

The moment you have your first few hires showing up at work, you’re now in a different challenge: how do you build a lasting culture…

5 min readMar 3, 2020

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How to bootstrap Engineering in a startup — Part 2: Outsourcing, Culture, First-time Leader

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How to bootstrap an Engineering team in a startup

The Engineering team, in many startups, is a killer differentiator. If anything, a team can make or break a product, even before you look…

7 min readFeb 25, 2020

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How to bootstrap an Engineering team in a startup

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Vulnerability Review: Apache Struts CVE-2017–5638

Earlier this year, a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Apache Struts 2 became widely known to the public. Known as…

2 min readJul 5, 2017

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Vlad A. Ionescu

Vlad A. Ionescu

Building something new. Founder of ShiftLeft. Creator of Lever OS. Ex Google. Ex VMware. Co-author RabbitMQ Erlang client. https://twitter.com/VladAIonescu

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