The 10x Developer Mindset

How the best engineers multiply their impact through automation

Every great engineer you've worked with has the same secret: they ruthlessly automate away friction. Custom scripts. Clever integrations. Tools that turn 8-hour tasks into 30-minute reviews.

They don't work 10x harder. They've built systems that multiply their impact.

The Problem: Operational Overhead

Your entire team could work this way. But right now, they're drowning in operational overhead. Customer questions. Deploy processes. Knowledge scattered across Slack, Notion, and a dozen other tools. Every context switch costs hours of deep work.

You know your engineers could build these force multipliers. They have the skills. They just don't have the time.

The Solution: Systematic Automation

That's where we come in. We build the automation infrastructure that transforms your entire team into 10x developers. Not by teaching them to code faster, but by eliminating everything that slows them down.

The 10x Principles

1. Automate Ruthlessly

If you do something twice, write a script. If the team does it, build a tool. Time spent on automation pays compound interest.

2. Eliminate Context Switching

Every interruption costs 23 minutes of focus. Build systems that answer questions before they're asked.

3. Invest in Developer Experience

The best teams treat tooling like product. Every minute saved in the development cycle multiplies across the entire team.

4. Knowledge as Code

Documentation rots. Automation persists. Encode your team's knowledge in tools, not wikis.

5. Compound Leverage

Small improvements compound. A 1% daily improvement becomes a 37x improvement in a year. Start now.

Real Impact, Not Theory

This isn't about methodology or process. It's about building real tools that deliver measurable results:

  • PR review time cut by 50% with custom LLM workflows
  • Support escalations reduced by 70% with intelligent bots
  • Design-to-code time dropped from days to hours with Figma integration
  • Onboarding time halved with automated environment setup

What Makes a 10x Developer

Insights from engineers who've worked with the best

"10x developers are very aggressive in protecting their time. No useless meetings or useless tasks that they don't feel have impact. They write code that makes things reusable rather than complicated highly performant one-offs. And a lot of tooling to do things faster - like all kinds of shortcuts to speed up routine things."
- Shaun, Senior Software Engineer, at Chime
"In general it's really never IC feature work. Yes, some engineers can do things faster but that really has limits. If you're saying a '10x engineer' does something in 30 minutes that takes others 5 hours - that's just not realistic for most work."

"It's really in how they level up an entire team, make processes bogging down 10s to 100s of engineers more efficient. When you have a staff level engineer clearing roadblocks and focusing on foundational pieces it accelerates the entire team."
- Reid Knight, Staff Engineer, ex-Stripe
"Time was being massively wasted on x and y, so we just up and made those things better. The 10x part is just that we did that under the radar, ask for forgiveness, and we did it quick."
- Anton Kropp, Author of "Building A Startup", Staff Engineer at Stripe & Chime

Ready to 10x Your Team?

Let's build the automation infrastructure that transforms your engineers into force multipliers.