James Stanier is Director of Engineering at Shopify, an e-commerce platform making it easy for millions of entrepreneurs to start, grow and succeed at running their businesses online. He works remotely from the UK countryside, and has built distributed teams around the world. He is also the author of two books: "Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager", and more recently, "Effective Remote Work". He holds a Ph.D. in computer science and runs theengineeringmanager.com.