Cody Lee
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cody-s-lee GitHub: https://github.com/cody-s-lee
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Completed SOC2 Audit
We've successfully submitted all evidence for our annual SOC2 audit. As CISO I was responsible for organizing this audit. -
H1 OKRs Are In
I was directly responsible for a few OKRs, one of which was a major win:
Through process improvements and statistical analysis, our ability to accurately predict how much work teach team could accomplish was drastically improved.
I tracked our 4-sprint trailing mean and variance, capacity adjusted, for each team. We reduced variance by 40% through various means:- Stopped over-stuffing sprints (the easy one). We targeted sprints at 1 standard deviation below mean so obviously our variance would go down. However, we did not reduce our mean! This means that our average over-production made up for our reduction in target. We were pushing ahead most sprints as a result.
- Focused on completion of tickets. Reducing our WIP enabled improved focus and more consistent delivery.
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Vendor Renewal Win
Another vender renewal win. This time a 30% discount for a mission-critical product. This also kicked off a discussion that could potentially give up to a total 70% reduction in costs. -
Batch Query API Complete
Congratulations to Edem Attikese for leading the Batch Query API to completion! -
Engineering Organization Information Architecture Refresh
Kicked off the engineering org information architecture refresh. This project adds owners to all of our internal knowledge base pages. We also started the restructuring of the knowledge layout to make it easier to reach the critical data needed to build effectively. -
2024H1 Sprint Metrics Analysis
I worked with Parker Bannister to analyze the performance of the engineering org over H1 to date. We analyzed sprint-over-sprint velocity mean and deviations. (Yes, this should be a log-normal distribution. @ me if you have a good refresher course on log-normal analysis.) We also analyzed story cycle time versus point estimate.
Sprint Analysis- Collected sprint data
- Calculated effective team capacity for each sprint due to vacation and holidays
- Calculated capacity-adjusted velocity
- Analyzed planned versus unplanned tickets
- Calculated mean, median and standard deviation
Story Estimate Analysis- Collected story data for each team
- Calculated cycle time durations for each story
- For each estimate value (Fibonacci values 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13) cycle time quartiles were calculated
Results
We were able to make recommendations for each team based on results, primarily what point total each team should target in order to predictably complete assigned work. We also eliminated 3-pointers on the Data team due to the data showing that 3 and 5-point stories were statistically indistinguishable. -
New Query Pattern Approved
The Interfaces team will be developing a new query pattern. The ERD has been approved. Congratulations to Edem Attikese for leading this project. -
Team Impact Analyses
I conducted an impact analysis for each team I oversee. From that we determined major contributions, including doing net new ARR analysis.
- Data Team - Impact across a wide variety of projects
- Internal Platform Rollouts
- New Data Products
- Proof of Concept deliveries for prospects
- Tech debt reduction
- Interfaces Team - Full sales cycle of UI product over 2023Q4-2024Q1 time period
- Patient History UI product
- Data Deltas product
- $XXXX primary net new ARR
- $XXXX secondary net new ARR
- Data Team - Impact across a wide variety of projects
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Team Cultural Series
Kicked off a cultural review series with Carolyn Ward, MD. Over the next two months we will meet with Particle Health employees and represent the peoples' voice in advancing Particle Health values. -
Particle Health Recognizes Team Leads
I've created the role definition for Team Leads at Particle. Team Lead is an empowered engineer overseeing the short-term activities of the team. Team lead is a role where an engineer can showcase their non-technical capabilities in service of creating an strong, independent team. -
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Rollout of New Career Ladder
We refreshed the engineering career ladder at Particle. As part of this I presented to the engineering team during the all-company January onsite.
This new career ladder is more domain-agnostic than the old ladder, more aligned to company values, and more cleanly described. -
Data Science at Particle is Now a Kanban Team
I ran through the STATIK analysis for the Data Science team. We identified the workflow, SLAs and system by which the Data Science team works. This enables the team to be both reactive to ad-hoc requests as well as to predictably contribute to new data product creation at Particle. -
First Sale of UI Product
We've closed our first deal for the Patient History UI. Congratulations to the team for this historic milestone! -
HITRUST 2023 Complete
I organized the HITRUST certification for 2023. This required collection and upload of nearly 200 pieces of evidence. Major thanks to the whole Infosec Working Group for making this possible.
This was my first project as Interim CISO at Particle. -
New Patient UI MVP Officialy Ready
We are now able to release the Patient History UI. This product provides immediate value to providers on day one.
The Patient History UI is built upon Particle Health's data products, so everything we've built can be replicated by direct API calls. -
Visiting Korea
My family and I are visiting Korea for the first time. It's refreshing to be able to take nearly 3 weeks off.
Looking forward to:- Food
- Architecture
- Amusement Parks
- Food!
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Udemy Learning Platform for Particle Health
We kicked off Udemy as Particle Health's learning platform. Every employee will be able to learn from over 10,000 courses.
I was a member of the steering committee, including review and evaluation of the learning platform.
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Initial Greenfield Product Internal Milestone
We had our first internal demo for a greenfield product my team is developing. This product will enable us to approach an entirely new business area. -
New SRE Starts
I had the privilege of completing the SRE hiring process and hiring Luke Kalbfleisch. This process started before I even joined Particle! This process concluded during the April onsite. -
Vendor Renewal Win
I was able to negotiate a 20% discount in vendor renewal terms for a mission-critical SaaS product we consume. -
Finished First Build Team Meetup
I organized and ran Particle's first Build Team (Engineering+Product) meetup!
This 3-day event covered technical and cultural topics:- Core systems and architecture overview and discussion
- Sales process presentation
- Cultural norms development for the build team
- Future platform and product strategy
- Engineering and Product requirements documentation process revamp
- Fun and games!
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Individual Access Alpha Program
Particle Health launched our Individual Access Alpha Program for ViVE. This allowed us to collect demographics and authorizations for later use to make individual access queries when available on the networks.
- Integrated with PandaDoc for collection of authorizations
- Integrated with CLEAR for identity verification
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Engineering Leadership Round Table Discussion
Took place in a round table discussion hosted by HearMeOut.co about challenges and strategies as leaders. Meeting with 8 peer engineering leaders I engaged in discussion on my own challenge as well as the challenges of others.
- Picked up some additional strategies on modeling leadership behaviors for senior engineers
- Additional insights on hiring processes to ensure that the pipeline is at the right level for the role expected
- Discussed communication strategies to ensure that executives are kept at the right level of information pertinent to their needs
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Attending First Postmortem at Particle
This was the first blameless postmortem I attended at Particle (though not my first over all time). We analyzed the incident, running through a 5-whys analysis. This yielded four follow-ups to actively mitigate into the future. -
Started at Particle Health as Senior Engineering Manager
The start of my next adventure, I am the incoming Senior Engineering Manager at Particle Health.