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Interview with Chuck Groom, Director of Engineering at VTS

April 12, 2018 Leave a Comment

Location: New York City
Current role: Director of Engineering at VTS

What’s your background and how did you get into management?

I come from a software engineering background, but I’ve always had a passion for product and business. I’m a serial entrepreneur: I co-founded BillMonk in 2005 (tracks informal debt between friends, like roommates splitting bills; company was sold to Obopay) and the I co-founded Precision Polling in 2010 (self-serve IVR phone surveys;

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16 Blogs On Engineering Management And Leadership You May Not Know About

November 4, 2018 Leave a Comment

The following blogs are all from previous guests on managersclub.com. You may not know about all these blogs but they are based on the real-life experience of engineering managers. Many of these are on medium so you can easily follow them.

I’ve also added links to their engineering management interviews on managersclub.com.

Blogs

  1. http://allenc.com/articles/. Articles on engineering leadership by Allen Cheung, Senior Director of Engineering at Affirm.

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Interview with Lei Yang, VP of Engineering at Quora

October 8, 2018 Leave a Comment

Location: Mountain View, CA
Current role: VP of engineering at Quora

What’s your background and how did you get into management?

I was born and raised in China. I got my Bachelors degree from Peking University and then came to the US for grad school. I started my first full time job at Google after I got my PhD. After seven years at Google, I joined Quora. In my professional life,

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Interview with Debjani Sarkar, Director of Engineering at Nuance Communications

October 4, 2018 Leave a Comment

Location: Reston, Virginia
Current Role: Director of Engineering in Nuance Communications

What’s your background and how did you get into management?

I am not just an engineer by training but one by heart! After my undergraduate degree in engineering, I started my career in Digital Image Processing / Graphics engineering and in a couple of years transitioned into Software engineering. I spent over a decade designing and developing software products and solutions for a wide range of business domains including Telecommunication,

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