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Dan Lines
Co-founder and COO at LinearB
Host at Dev Interrupted Podcast
- Software Engineering
- Entrepreneur
- 📍Santa Monica, CA
How can we save every engineer an hour every day?
As COO & Co-Founder of LinearB ($71M in funding), this question drives me. As a former dev and eventually VP of Engineering at Cloudlock ($293M exit), I experienced the pain points that affect every dev and engineering leader — lack of visibility, too much time spent context switching to take on menial tasks, etc.
Software engineers are the builders of the modern world, and effective engineering teams are one of the most powerful levers you can apply to a problem. That’s why my co-founder Ori Keren and I started LinearB and why I host Top 100 Tech Podcast Dev Interrupted every week – we want to solve the problems facing engineering teams, save them time, align with the business, and deliver features faster.
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BOOK NOW FOR your podcast
Dan Lines
Co-founder and COO at LinearB
Host at Dev Interrupted Podcast
- 📍Santa Monica, CA
- Software Engineering
- Entrepreneur
How can we save every engineer an hour every day?
As COO & Co-Founder of LinearB ($71M in funding), this question drives me. As a former dev and eventually VP of Engineering at Cloudlock ($293M exit), I experienced the pain points that affect every dev and engineering leader — lack of visibility, too much time spent context switching to take on menial tasks, etc.
Software engineers are the builders of the modern world, and effective engineering teams are one of the most powerful levers you can apply to a problem. That’s why my co-founder Ori Keren and I started LinearB and why I host Top 100 Tech Podcast Dev Interrupted every week – we want to solve the problems facing engineering teams, save them time, align with the business, and deliver features faster.
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“LinearB, which has developed an engineering efficiency platform, announced on Monday the raising of $50 million in Series B financing led by Tribe Capital. Joining Tribe Capital in the round is new investor Salesforce Ventures as well as existing investors Battery Ventures and 83North. This round brings total funding for LinearB to $71 million.”
“LinearB, a startup that helps engineering leaders optimize the workflow of their development teams, today announced that it has raised a $50 million Series B round led by Tribe Capital. New investor Salesforce Ventures, as well as existing investors Battery Ventures and 83North, also participated in this round, which brings the company’s total funding to $71 million.”
“It’s almost impossible for engineering teams to pinpoint their cycle times, bottlenecks, and continuous improvement efforts without measuring and identifying their successes and failures. You can achieve continuous improvement only by enabling a learning culture and removing bottlenecks while identifying areas for improvement.”
“After 20 years and a global pandemic, we learned that ‘hybrid remote’ is exactly how software development teams were always meant to work. That is, teams working collaboratively across different locations, time zones, etc. and completing individual tasks asynchronously that are dependent upon one another.”
“To create high-performing teams, engineering leaders must embrace and enable a culture of continuous improvement. However, measuring improvement is often tied to individual performance indicators and vanity output metrics, and these measurements can teach all the wrong behaviors for high-performing teams.”
Timeline
Apr 2018 - Present
LinearB
Co-founder & COO
Nov 2008 - Nov 2017
CloudLock
VP Engineering & Operations
Jan 2007 - Jan 2008
Nuance Communications
Software Engineer
Ask me
| How can engineering teams improve efficiency? |
| How can developers be more productive? |
| How should engineer leaders communicate their team’s impact on the business to other company leadership? |
| What does great developer experience look like in 2023? |
| What do elite dev teams look like? And what industry benchmarks should you look at? |
| How can engineering leaders unlock their team's potential? |
| How can you align engineering and product to the rest of your business? |
| What’s the most surprising but substantial problem in development? |
| What is "continuous merge"? |
