Coaching

I coach founders to overcome the challenges they face and reach their goals. In my experience, the general framework for our coaching work addresses these priorities:

• Stabilize immediate infrastructure health issues by fixing the core underlying issues behind recurring similar outages. We will spend most of our time looking at diagnostics dashboards and discussing recent outages.
• Raise resilience to potential outages by building tooling and protections into existing systems. We will spend most of our time discussing your architecture and the ways it can fail.
• Position your infrastructure to accelerate product as opposed to draw away from it. We will spend most of our time discussing your codebases abstractions and the collaboration patterns of the people on your team.

We primarily do this through coaching discussions, but when needed and appropriate, I also can write code or help troubleshoot outages.

My goal is to solve your problems by training you, which removes my participation as a necessary dependency. Each time we level you up, we can shift our coaching to discuss new ground. Success is when you are confident and successful in owning your infrastructure without my support.

For all prospective clients, I set aside two hours to provide you with a free coaching session. Bring some problems that we can dive into the details on. In addition to that, we'll discuss your company and discuss possible collaboration structures depending on what you and your company need.

To get started, email me for a discovery session at david@davidmah.com.

In our discovery session, I’ll gain a sense of who you are, along with your company goals and challenges. Please be prepared with an example of the kinds of infrastructure issues you're encountering today so we can get some real work done.

My typical client is post-launch, has user traction, and has between 5-20 engineers. If you are outside this profile, we can discuss your specific situation to see if I am a good fit for you.

Before reaching out to me, you may want to read some of my essays or some of the SRE essay sequence. That will help you get a sense of my philosophy and skills.

Hope to hear from you!
David