Jon Gille

Background

About Jon Gille

As a developer coming mostly from the backend side of things, I found myself more and more interested in leadership and product development. This has lead to me working in technical leadership roles since 2014. As a leader I want to be a multiplier, making others better and helping them find the answers rather than answering their question for them. I firmly believe that autonomy, mastery and purpose is what will keep people motivated, which is why I try to push as many decisions as possible to the development team(s) and make room for experimentation and skill building. It must be safe to fail, otherwise there will never be any innovation. I have a background as a coach within sports (5 years in swimming, 3 years in CrossFit) and I think I benefit from this experience when coaching people in tech as well I firmly believe in agile processes. Build an MVP. Measure it, tweak it, iterate. I try to find ways of adding user value while reducing the time and money spent. I tend to be a valued ally to product owners, and I enjoy our collaboration. I want to build meaningful products, things that have a positive impact on people's life. I still write code and plan to keep doing so. I like building stuff. I'm interested in how a complex system can be broken down into pieces that are easy to reason about and I have used microservices, events and Domain Driven Design to do so. Often successfully, sometimes less so, and I keep learning. A healthy work/life balance is a must, both for me and for the people I work with. I try to stay healthy by eating well, sleeping a lot and working out (mostly lifting heavy things).