Articles by Chris Eigner
Chris is an experienced engineering leader who most recently worked as a Senior Engineering Manager at Credit Karma on a combo Platform and Security team. He previously cofounded a crypto hedge fund, where he was CTO/COO, helped raise capital, and ran day to day operations. In a past life he founded a software development consulting company and worked at a Bay Area payments company.
How to Manage UpChris provides excellent examples of managing up: • Proactively providing status updates on major projects • When you run into a major blocker, get feedback from peers and come up with possible creative solutions before escalating to your manager • Show you can be trusted with important projects by mitigating risks and providing a tracking sheet for at-a-glance progress updates