ANDY CRUM

•  Andy Crum is currently a senior engineering manager at Beam Dental.
• Prior to this role, he has been the Director of Engineering at Quartzy.
• Andy has shown his appreciation with a clap for an article in Medium with the title, "Creating a Great Engineering Culture Amidst Incredible Growth."
• The article was written by an engineering manager from Beam.
• The article focuses on the perspective that despite the difficulty of developing an exemplary engineering culture in a dynamic startup environment, striving for an ideal environment is highly beneficial.
• The article further describes the attributes of an ideal engineering culture.
• It then states the actual action steps that the Beam engineering team has done to build a great culture.
• Some of the action steps that have been put in place include team members having full ownership of the work, increase in autonomy on project ownership, establishing an open-source policy, and advocating continuous learning.
• The article also mentioned some of the challenges of the engineering organization.
• These challenges revolve around team visibility and collaboration, multi-location app support, and handling a developing team amidst expanding work.
• In his role as the previous Director of Engineering at Quartzy, Andy mentioned that the usability testing cycle on the company's well-designed and user-friendly laboratory research platform was the "most ambitious project" that his team has worked on.
• Given that he retweeted the post, Andy seems to agree with the message of this metaphorical statement: "If you’re a web designer/front-end developer, it may help to think of the fan on your laptop as a shaming rather than a cooling device."
• He also reposted an article on his Twitter account that focuses on addressing the technical debt within an organization for them to deliver work faster and with fewer issues.