# Director of Engineering, Lawrence Mandel Talks Road to Leadership, Growth, and Finding Balance.

DevFeed: [Director of Engineering, Lawrence Mandel Talks Road to Leadership, Growth, and Finding Balance.](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/director-of-engineering-lawrence-mandel-talks-road-to-leadership-growth-and-finding-balance-1373.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://shopify.engineering/director-of-engineering-lawrence-mandel-talks-road-to-leadership-growth-and-finding-balance>)

Author: Toni Akinwumi

Published: 2018-12-03T21:12:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Shopify Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/shopify-engineering.md>), [Shopify Engineering - Shopify Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/shopify-engineering-shopify-engineering.md>)

Topics: [Shopify](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/shopify.md>), [Production Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/production-engineering.md>), [Swing](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/swing.md>), [MediaWiki](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mediawiki.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>), [Automation](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/automation.md>), [Scripting, bash](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/scripting-bash.md>), [web applications](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web-applications.md>), [XML](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/xml.md>), [ibm](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ibm.md>), [Mozilla](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mozilla.md>)

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## AI overview

This interview profiles Lawrence Mandel, a Director of Production Engineering at Shopify who leads the Developer Acceleration team. It discusses the team's work building tools, conventions, documentation, and automation for developers; Mandel's experience at IBM and Mozilla; his open-source projects and Java web application work; and his views on career growth, leadership, time management, family, health, and work.

## Source excerpt

Lawrence Mandel is a Director of Production Engineering leading Shopify's Developer Acceleration team and has been at Shopify for over a year. He previously worked at IBM and Mozilla where he started as a software developer before transitioning into leadership roles. Through all his work experience, he's learned to understand the meaning of time management and to prioritize the most important things in his life, which are his family, health, and work.