Alan Van Arden - Enhance your dev team's adaptability, efficiency, and value delivery.”


On Demand Engineering Leadership As a fractional software engineering leader, I specialize in supporting product-led organizations with engineering leadership. I offer consistent support to level up your engineering teams and typically work with companies with fewer than 25 engineers. My focus is to fill an immediate need while addressing long-term leadership gaps.	Coaching for Engineering Managers and Leads You are a new manager, or you've just promoted someone to a leadership role. Balancing the new demands of team leadership and people management is challenging. It's a big change from being an individual contributor. Having a little help from an experienced professional goes a long way toward becoming an influential leader.
Strategic Software Team Design As organizations and software products scale, it can be challenging keeping teams aligned on your company's vision and delivering the right value. I will help your product and engineering leaders establish autonomous teams that can best deliver value independently and don't get in each other's way.	Technical Due Diligence Need to evaluate a company's technology and development practices before investing in the organization? By performing an assessment, I will help you understand the technical risks, organizational structures, ability to iterate, and other challenges that may impact the software's medium- to long-term viability.

On Demand Engineering Leadership

As a fractional software engineering leader, I specialize in supporting product-led organizations with engineering leadership. I offer consistent support to level up your engineering teams and typically work with companies with fewer than 25 engineers.

My focus is to fill an immediate need while addressing long-term leadership gaps.

Coaching for Engineering Managers and Leads

You are a new manager, or you've just promoted someone to a leadership role. Balancing the new demands of team leadership and people management is challenging. It's a big change from being an individual contributor.

Having a little help from an experienced professional goes a long way toward becoming an influential leader.

Strategic Software Team Design

As organizations and software products scale, it can be challenging keeping teams aligned on your company's vision and delivering the right value.

I will help your product and engineering leaders establish autonomous teams that can best deliver value independently and don't get in each other's way.

Technical Due Diligence

Need to evaluate a company's technology and development practices before investing in the organization?

By performing an assessment, I will help you understand the technical risks, organizational structures, ability to iterate, and other challenges that may impact the software's medium- to long-term viability.

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About Me

Hi! I'm Alan.
EX: TWG - a Deloitte business, Rockstar Games, Electronic Arts

With nearly two decades in tech, spanning industries from gaming to finance, I've seen firsthand the challenges technical teams face—from constant change to growing complexity. My background in software engineering and leadership across various-sized organizations, from startups to enterprises, equips me with insights to support your team.

I am committed to empower your organization's people, and them guide toward sustainable success—ultimately, making my role redundant as your team thrives independently.

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Enhance your software team's adaptability, efficiency and value delivery.

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On Demand Engineering Leadership

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