Jeremy is what you hope for in every engineering hire. He's an excellent engineer who makes everyone else on the team better. He can lead a project on almost any part of the stack: backend, frontend, native. As a manager, his technical chops give him credibility and he's strong on the team building, coaching and stakeholder collaboration parts of management as well. His sense of ownership and generosity of spirit make him a leader you want people to emulate.

I hired Jeremy at Etsy in 2012 and worked closely with him for his ~4.5 year tenure there. He had a long string of needle-moving successes on projects where success was not guaranteed: In Person Payments (Etsy's credit card reader), International card processing and disbursements and Guest Checkout. The first two required solving completely new technical challenges and the last required rewiring 10 years worth of legacy code that assumed a signed-in buyer.

He also responded to countless incidents, minor, major and everything in between. You could feel the collective blood pressure drop when Jeremy would join the warroom.

As a manager Jeremy attracted and hired talented engineers and helped develop the engineers who were already on the team. He can manage people at any stage of their careers, from interns to staff level or above. He doesn’t shy away from the difficult conversations and decisions required to run a high functioning team. People enjoy reporting to him because he's a leader who will help them grow. Beyond his direct reports, he is comfortable and effective interacting with stakeholders from internal partners to executives to 3rd party vendors.

During one of our retrospectives, we were discussing our team values and Jeremy said he aspired for our team to be known as "fun and functional." That's a great description of Jeremy himself and the tl;dr; for this note. He's a kickass engineering leader and the sort of person you look forward to seeing every day.

Jeremy Cutler is an incredible leader and someone I would jump through hoops to work with again. He has the perfect pace where he knows when to slow down, drill in, and be thoughtful and when to kick it into gear and be hyper efficient. After spending time with Jeremy as his product partner, I now have a deeper sense of what an engineering manager can do. He has stretched my expectations with his communication skills, his generosity, and his ability to identify and work through a complex problem with a positive attitude. We were the perfect duo.

Whichever team gets to work with Jeremy next… you'll soon learn that you've won the lottery and that Jeremy's going to build a home for you.

Jeremy was my manager at Etsy for over a year, and in that time my career really blossomed. When I started working with Jeremy, I had only been working as an engineer for about a year, I was new to the payments team, and I had a lot of self-doubt. Jeremy was a strong advocate for me and gave me the opportunity to take on more and more challenging work, eventually making me tech lead of a large project. His encouragement and trust were invaluable. Jeremy opened a lot of doors for me, and I'm grateful to have had him as my manager.

Jeremy is also a stellar engineer. He was deeply knowledgeable about every part of the payments stack, from onboarding new sellers, to credit card processing, to disbursements. It was great to have a manager who understood the engineering work and underlying systems and who could contribute to architecture discussions.

Jeremy was my manager for my first year or so at Etsy. He's the rare mix of an enormously talented Engineer (with a capital E), a thoughtful and empathetic manager, and a genuinely fun person. At Etsy the only real complaint was that there wasn't enough of Jeremy to go around. He was a highly-desired resource technically, but also managed a challenging number of direct reports in the face of a rapidly growing team. And despite all that, he still found time to be one of the top contributors to irccat, the chatbot that was the glue in Etsy's chat-based social cohesion.

From the beginning, I respected Jeremy very much for the amount of latitude and flexibility he afforded me as a senior member of the staff. Some managers have a hard time being hands-off, but the thing that really made him stand out for me was when I had non-technical challenges adapting to Etsy's uniquely humane culture after many years at tech companies where no communication style was too pointed so long as your technical skills were sharper. Jeremy helped me grow more as a employee in a year of management than I have in my previous decade at less humane companies.

Jeremy was my first engineering manager out of school, and I could not have asked for a better experience. He was driven to make sure I always was able to work on things I cared about, and to understand both why my work was important, and how it fit into the larger engineering organization. Jeremy made it easy for me to get up to speed fast and contribute in more meaningful ways, always able to put me in touch with the right people to get a job done or learn how something works. In particular I got a lot of value out of our weekly 1 on 1 meetings, which were a reliable source of guidance -- both technical and otherwise -- regardless of what else was going on.

While I was initially Jeremy's only direct report, I saw him able to take more and more engineers under his wing as time went on -- it seemed as though you could come to Jeremy about anything in the engineering org, and he would already have some context. Even since he's left people continue to actively reference documentation he wrote.

I was lucky to have Jeremy as both a manager and a mentor, and I have full confidence that Jeremy will be able to push any team he is a part of to new heights.

I worked with Jeremy across a number of different projects while we were both part of the payments team at Etsy. During that time he transitioned from an "individual contributor" to a manager. He was a full stack engineer/manager and I a product manager.

Before Jeremy was a manager, he simply got work done while encouraging and mentoring the engineers around him. After Jeremy became a manager, he continued what made him successful before all the while being an excellent people manager and a voice of reasonableness regardless of the setting he was in.

If ever there was a "full stack engineer" Jeremy is/was that. He's practically a front-end wizard while also having a deep understanding for fixing/building reliable systems that helped keep payments running like butter. He required little oversight and continually showed a strong product sense.

All in, I would never, ever hesitate at the chance to work with Jeremy again. He's a true gem of a person in every setting.

Working with Jeremy was a privilege because I was spoiled by his level of skill and talent. As a product designer who was teamed up with Jeremy on several projects, I was impressed with not only his ability to problem solve complex back-end challenges, but also his ability to simplify and explain everything for me to understand. A genuine full stack engineer, Jeremy's back-end abilities are matched by his attention to detail on both the front-end implementation and the consideration of all the user scenarios. As a visual designer / user experience designer, I could not ask for anything more.

To me, Jeremy's biggest value is that he cares. He cares for the product he develops and about the people with whom he works. During my time at Etsy, Jeremy grew into a managerial role supporting other engineers. Even before this, he took the time to patiently mentor me. Jeremy helped me improve my front-end skills and taught me basic back-end development, all of which have made me a better designer.

In addition to Jeremy's technical and people skills, he is amazingly fun to work with. Collaborating together on a webcam that lets us see what lunches or snacks are available in the kitchen is only one of the many great experiences I had working with him. I'm jealous of anyone who gets to work with Jeremy, so much so that I hope that our career paths cross again. I would be very happy to work him in the future.

When you're looking for engineers, Jeremy is exactly who you hope walks through the door. He's smart, energetic, hardworking, ambitious, and able to dive into messy situations, figure out what's going on, and own them. I didn't report to Jeremy but it was a pleasure watching him move into being a manager, as empathic folks with both people skills and strong technical chops are a rare find. Jeremy is an asset to any organization lucky enough to have him.