The software workshop and consultancy of Mark Wunsch, an engineering leader with over 15 years of experience galvanizing teams through technical and cultural change.
Wunsch Werks offers expert fractional CTO services, AI strategy consulting, and engineering team leadership for startups and scaling companies. Whether you’re migrating to the cloud, implementing DevOps best practices, or building an agile team that ships product fast, I help you get there.
Core Services
😶🌫️ Cloud Migrations, DevOps, and Cost Optimizations
From building a continuous delivery pipeline to optimizing costs. Hire me to plan and advise how to make the most of cloud offerings.
🤖 AI Strategy & Implementation
I will cut through the buzz and hype and help you identify ways in which AI technologies can lead to productivity gains and innovative product offerings.
🌱 Team Building & Organizational Design
From creating hiring plans, sourcing talent, building robust interviewing pipelines, onboarding, and finally, integrating, I’ve built incredible, high-functioning engineering teams focused on collaboration and delivery.
🚨 Incident Response Planning & DevOps Resilience
How does your team respond during a crisis? What is your organizational memory for pernicious errors or exceptional circumstances? I can organize, plan, and execute an effective incident response and on-call operation.
🚀 A Culture of Shipping
Is your engineering team outputting product? Is that output effective? Are your outcomes out of sync with the team’s output? Hire me to craft an engineering culture that values product delivery and shipping code while maintaining an anti-fragile mindset.
How I Work
- Pragmatism. Wunsch Werks is a software engineering practice that is focused on outcomes. Those outcomes seldomly require excessive technical effort, nor the new & flashy tools. Too often, software engineering tends toward maximalism. That’s not how I approach problem solving. Cunning is usually a far better tool than what might be on the front page of Hacker News.
- Agility. Once a software engineering effort begins, the costs and energy of that effort are effectively captured and cannot be recouped. For that reason, it’s essential that ideas and possible solutions are validated with users and customers. I favor a lean methodology, the Jobs to Be Done framework, and speedy, nimble iterations that can be tested and validated. “Agility” is a loaded term in software development. Wunsch Werks does not adhere closely to any one particular Agile dogma. Instead I focus on the original principles of the agile manifesto, using tools that allow us to gain greater visibility into our output so that we can become more effective practitioners.
- Curiosity. The work of an engineer is to solve problems. To have a complete picture of the problem at hand, we need to remain curious and open to learning. Solutions can present themselves from the least expected source. Engineering departments can often be isolated, siloed parts of the organization. I encourage breaking out of the day-to-day rigmarole of writing code to build better, richer cross-functional relationships, and routinely viewing problems through different lenses of the business. I question accepted best practice and ask “why?”
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