Wissam Abirached - Designing for Scale

Avoiding the Culture Trap

a year ago 2 min read Leadership Management

Last week, I was sharing some thoughts with a colleague about building diverse teams. I figured I should spend some time trying to better articulate my ideas. Throughout my engineering career, I've been

Thoughts on my First 90 Days at Stripe

a year ago 3 min read Career Learning Management

I initially intended to only share this post internally at Stripe. I have since tweaked it a bit in order to share it externally in the spirit of learning and growing in public.

My Best Advice for New Hires

3 years ago 2 min read Career Engineering

I recently hired four new engineers for the API team at GitHub. Starting a new job is never easy, and I feel like it is especially harder when you land at one of

✨ Worksheet: Introducing Engineering Design ✨

3 years ago 3 min read Engineering Management

As a follow-up to my story about Introducing Engineering Design, I share the step-by-step guide I put together for my team when I first introduced this concept to them. Feel free to use

Two Stories About Transitioning to Engineering Management

3 years ago 1 min read Leadership Management

I recently published 2 new stories about Engineering Leadership on Plato. These stories cover different challenges I had to overcome as an Engineering Manager. In the first article, When Words Bear More Weight