Nicholas Zakas

when they kind of reach those upper levels of the IC track, tech lead, staff engineer, principal engineer, which I did in a former life, just helping people kind of navigate companies and leadership and communication and politics and all the things.

Yeah, it's one-on-one.

Just do remote Zoom calls and just talk about the challenges people are having and give some tools and suggestions of how to deal with situations that might come up.

Because anybody who became a tech lead, they'll know that basically when you become a tech lead, they say, hey, congratulations, you're a tech lead.

Go do tech leading stuff.

And don't really tell you what that entails.

So that's when I come in and just help people figure out how to work effectively in those roles and manage your manager and get stuff done.

Yeah, that's 100% of the people that I work with are people who are already employed at a company.

A lot of times a company will even pay for the coaching through their professional development expensing.

And sometimes the managers reach out to me and just say, hey, I have this person that I'm working with that I really like to get them some coaching either because they're

They just don't have more senior people at the company.

I work with a lot of startups that just don't have those really senior people that can help mentor people.

Or sometimes the really senior people are just too busy, don't actually have the time to sit down and do that sort of coaching and mentoring.

Sometimes it's the engineers themselves who reach out, and I always encourage them to talk to the manager to see if they have professional development funding that might be able to pay for it, too, because if the company is going to benefit from you becoming a better employee, then it seems only fair that they should pay for it, too.

Yep.

So you can drop by my website.

It's a human who codes.com slash coaching.

And that'll give you all the information about like what I do, how it works.

You can see some testimonials and there's a button for you to apply and you

fill out a form that just tells me about you and I can figure out if it would be a good fit because I'm one of those people who I want to make sure I can help you with the situation that you're dealing with.