With Jennifer Riggins, Paula Kennedy, Molly Clarke, and Leena Mooneeram
Platform teams don’t just build platforms, they shape engineers. Especially junior engineers.
You don’t build strong engineering teams by removing junior engineers.
Platform, done well, is an enabler. It removes friction, makes the right thing the easy thing, and raises the floor from day one.
We can help junior engineers ramp up faster by cutting out noise, reducing friction, and making it obvious what “good” looks like.
We can remove the false paths and guide their time into solving the problems that matter now, not the ones we had to solve.
New engineers don’t need to replay the same lessons we did. They can work on new problems.
Those problems will shape who they become as engineers. And as the landscape looks different for them, they should look different.