VP of Engineering Advisor
Skill Verified ActiveVP of Engineering advisory for startups: delivery throughput (DORA 4 metrics + bottleneck identification), engineering hiring funnel (sourcing → screen → onsite → offer conversion + time-to-fill + pipeline gap), engineering team structure (squad/tribe/chapter design + tech-lead manager-trigger thresholds), and production discipline (on-call, deployment cadence, postmortem culture). Use when sprint velocity is dropping, eng hiring is broken, team structure is unclear, or deciding when to add a tech-lead manager. NOT a CTO skill (which owns architecture) — VPE owns delivery operations and how the team ships.
To provide data-driven VPE advisory for startups, enabling them to diagnose and improve delivery operations, hiring efficiency, team organization, and production discipline.
Features
- DORA 4 metrics analysis and bottleneck identification
- Engineering hiring funnel diagnosis and pipeline gap calculation
- Team structure recommendations based on headcount and workstreams
- Production discipline assessment across on-call, incident response, deployment cadence, and SLOs
- Specialized Python scripts for automated analysis
Use Cases
- Diagnosing dropping sprint velocity and identifying throughput bottlenecks
- Assessing and fixing broken engineering hiring funnels
- Determining optimal team structure and when to hire managers
- Auditing production discipline and readiness for scaling
- Advising founders without a VPE on strategic engineering operations
Non-Goals
- Acting as a CTO skill (architecture, technical strategy)
- Replacing day-to-day incident coordination (handled by engineering leads)
- Providing tactical HR functions like compensation benchmarking or leveling
- Offering specific tool configurations for monitoring or incident management platforms
Practices
- Engineering operations
- Delivery throughput
- Hiring funnel optimization
- Team structure design
- Production discipline
Prerequisites
- Python 3 installed
- Input data (JSON files for metrics, team profiles) as specified by script usage
Installation
First, add the marketplace
/plugin marketplace add alirezarezvani/claude-skills/plugin install c-level-advisor@claude-code-skillsQuality Score
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