This article is written from the perspective of a fictional character, Sandrine, the protagonist of I am a Software Engineer and I am in Charge.
Author: Alexis Monville
Hi, I’m Alexis, a member of the Engineering Leadership Team at Enterprise Open Source Software company Red Hat.
For more than 20 years, I have used and built software in diverse sectors such as the automotive industry, a dot-com startup, IT consulting, public sector, software development, and my management and organization consulting and coaching firm.
From 2011 until Red Hat acquired eNovance in 2014, I nurtured and grew the eNovance agile organization from a few individuals to more than a hundred people. During this time, I maintained the team’s focus on delivering private cloud services with OpenStack while building an open and people-centric culture.
I regularly speak about management and agile transformation and participate in industry events such as the Open Infrastructure Summit, Open World Forum, and Agile Lean Europe.
I love coaching and mentoring software engineers. It is the foundation to builds high impact sustainable organizations.
I am the author of Changing Your Team From The Inside, a book published in 2018. With the second book, I am a Software Engineer and I am in Charge, Michael and I want to help increase your impact and satisfaction at work.

Emilien Macchi is a Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat. He’s been a contributor to OpenStack since almost its inception as an open-source project. I had the pleasure of having Emilien on Le Podcast to discuss how learning and sharing were essential ways of growing his career in Software Engineering. We covered many topics […]
The First Review

Julien Danjou is a Staff Engineer at Datadog, where he’s in charge of building a production profiler for Python. The post relates the story leading to his review of the book.
Confinement
This article is written from the perspective of a fictional character, Sandrine, the protagonist of I am a Software Engineer and I am in Charge.
Why this book?
Michael and I asked each other three questions about why we wrote this book and what we hope it achieves for you, the reader.