Interviews and Resources for Engineering Managers and Leaders
What’s your background and how did you get into management?
Originally, I’m from Hungary, where I was the co-founder of RisingStack, a small consulting company, focusing on JavaScript and DevOps. Early on, I took on the responsibilities of the CEO – I’ve always enjoyed helping others grow and succeed, so early on I’ve found joy in it. I’ve been leading RisingStack for a bit over three years – during that time we worked for companies small and big,
In this interview (and podcast), with Vishal Saxena, VP Global SaaS Operations at Aktana, we discuss handling organization change, the relationship between engineering and IT and Dev-ops, and advice for new managers.
In this interview (and podcast), with Pei-Chin Wang, Senior Director of Product at Redfin, we discuss the relationship between engineering and product management, challenges in creating process as your company scales, some excellent interview questions, and a fun tip to disconnect over the weekend.
Location: San Francisco
Current Role: Senior Engineering Manager @ Slack
What’s your background and how did you get into management?
I was a software engineer for most of my career. At my first job in a small startup, I grew my team from 1 to 20 in 1.5 years in India and San Francisco. My manager at the time strongly believed in my leadership and put me in front of our main customers,
Read or listen to my interview with interview with Randy Raw, VP of Information Security at Veterans United Home Loans. We discuss working w/ info security. lessons learned as a leader, recommend podcasts, and more!
Read these inspiring interviews from different LatinX leaders in tech sharing their experience to help other leaders improve. Learn how they got into management. What are the biggest challenges they face? What is their advice for managers who are just starting out? And answers to many other questions.
What’s your background and how did you get into management?
I studied Computer Science in Caracas, Venezuela. Before finishing college, around 2009, I was working part-time building mobile applications for BlackBerry and Android using Java and PhoneGap (currently known as Apache Cordova). Building things that others found useful was thrilling. I treasured this experience because it served as a good introduction to understanding that “shipping” a product is more than coding.
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In this interview (also available as a podcast), with Federico Soria, Engineering Manager at Airbnb, we discuss inbox zero, diversity and inclusion, hiring strategies in the highly competitive SF Bay Area, and hacking career development.
In this interview (also available as a podcast), I speak with Eugene Bochkarev, VP of Engineering at Xero who wants to make the whole community of engineers and managers better. We discuss advice for new managers, hiring strategies in the highly competitive SF Bay Area, and a lot of great learning and book recommendations.
In this interview (also available as a podcast), I speak with Ravi Bhim who has extensive experience and passion about remote and distributed teams. He is founder of BeautifulCode.co a company that specializes remote software development.
