Sabine Engel

Sabine Engel

Engineering Manager, Developer Tools

About

I manage engineers, which mostly means I remove obstacles and then get out of the way. I still write code on Fridays because I never want to be the manager who forgot what the work actually feels like. The moment you stop feeling the pain of a slow build, you stop fixing it. My team builds tools for other developers, which is a brutally honest audience. They'll tell you in one sentence if something is bad, and they're usually right. I've learned to treat that bluntness as a gift rather than a criticism, and it's made everything we ship sharper.

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4d ago

I Killed a Feature That Took Four Months to Build

Four months of work. Design, code, testing, launch, promotion. The whole thing.

Usage never crossed 3%. The people who used it loved it. Everyone else ignored it. And it was making the rest of the product harder to understand because it added a whole section to the navigation that most people never clicked.

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