{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"War stories from early days of engineering at LinkedIn | David Henke (LinkedIn, Yahoo)","description":"At the personal request of Reid Hoffman to emerge from early retirement, David joined LinkedIn in 2009 during a period of rapid growth to help stabilize the chaos, cultivating a much-needed culture of \u201cSite Up and Secure.\u201d Before this, David served as SVP of Engineering and Operations at Yahoo!, overseeing their Search Marketing organization and the Production Operations infrastructure for the entire company. Throughout his career, David has held multiple leadership positions and is recognized as one of the top operations executives. David\u2019s intensity, passion, courage and commitment to work have always been deeply admired by his colleagues and his wisdom, well captured in one line axioms, better known as Henkeisms, are still echoed at LinkedIn. This episode was first published almost 3 years ago and we are sharing it again because it\u2019s been one of our favorites :) Hope you like it too! Segments: [00:01:37] \u201cThis is my freaking site\u201d poster [00:04:10] David\u2019s first 2 retirements and starting at LinkedIn [00:09:41] IC to Management [00:17:20] Site-Up Culture [00:21:58] Re-architecting LinkedIn\u2019s release process [00:27:23] War stories from Yahoo: The 10G Massacre [00:32:06] \u201cGo to work every day willing to be fired\u201d: Project Panama at Yahoo [00:43:33] The power of Individual Contributors Show Notes:   David Henke on LinkedIn   Learning to Lead - David Henke\u2019s talk on leadership which he delivered at his alma mater - UCSB   Project Inversion at LinkedIn   Stay in touch: \ud83d\udc4b Let us know who we should talk to next! hello@softwaremisadventures.com ","author_name":"Software Misadventures","author_url":"https:\/\/softwaremisadventures.com\/","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/29339378\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/054760\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/content\/165851538"}