Tailscale has hired Mike Shaver as VP of Engineering. Shaver brings experience from Mozilla/Firefox, Facebook's mobile pivot, and Shopify. CEO Avery Pennarun frames the hire as bringing structure to help good engineering decisions scale across teams without bureaucratic overhead. Shaver describes his philosophy as making engineering leadership work like a great platform — expanding what engineers can accomplish by creating clear decision-making, psychological safety, and removing process friction.
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