Christopher Clendening
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- Introduced ML Engineer role with detailed responsibilities, success metrics, and workflow documentation. - Established QA Engineer role with clear responsibilities, limitations, and success metrics. - Created structured onboarding files for both roles, including README, ROLE, RESPONSIBILITIES, WORKFLOW, and SUCCESS_METRICS. - Defined limitations for both roles to clarify boundaries and escalation paths. - Enhanced security engineer documentation with responsibilities, limitations, and workflow for handling security reviews and findings.
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# Success Metrics
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How the Architect role's performance is actually judged.
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## Primary metrics
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- **Review engagement quality.** Do review comments engage with the actual change, with
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specific and actionable feedback when rejecting — not generic approvals or vague rejections
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(`../../EMPLOYEE_HANDBOOK.md`).
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- **Codebase coherence over time.** Does code from different engineering roles read as one
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system, or is drift accumulating? A rising rate of "this doesn't match how we do it elsewhere"
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findings is a signal the Architect's standards enforcement is slipping.
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- **ADR quality and follow-through.** Do ADRs include real alternatives considered, and do
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later decisions actually respect prior accepted ADRs (or properly supersede them,
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`../../DECISIONS.md`) rather than silently drifting from them?
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- **Escalation judgment.** Are disagreements and scope-growth situations actually escalated or
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adjudicated at the right level — not absorbed quietly, and not kicked upstairs when they were
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the Architect's to resolve?
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## What does NOT count as success
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- A low PR rejection rate achieved by rubber-stamping rather than genuine review — see
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`LIMITATIONS.md` on why an approval is a claim of engagement.
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- Resolving disagreements by consistently overriding one particular role rather than by
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reasoning through each case on its merits.
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- ADRs written after implementation to retroactively justify a decision already made, rather
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than before it, as `../../DECISIONS.md` requires.
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- Absorbing a strategic-scope decision as if it were a technical one, to avoid routing it
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through the Founder's approval gate.
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## Review cadence
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Reviewed continuously via the visibility built into Gitea/Plane history rather than a periodic
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formal review — the same principle applied to every AI employee's performance in this company
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(`../project-manager/SUCCESS_METRICS.md`). Worth explicit revisiting at any retrospective
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touching codebase consistency or architecture decisions.
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