Interviews and Resources for Engineering Managers and Leaders
Current role: Backend Engineering Manager at DataFox
Location: San Francisco Bay Area
What’s your background and how did you get into management?
I went to MIT for undergrad and grad school for computer science and joined Box right after. At Box, I was on the Platform Integrations team as an individual contributor. I loved the culture at Box; it had a lot of highly motivated, experienced engineers. I learned a lot about how to ship production code,
Location: Boston, MA
Current Role: Manager, UX Research and Strategy, Cisco Cloud Security
What’s my background, and how did I get into management?
I’ve been working in product design and strategy in some form or another for 20+ years. I started as an information architect (a UX designer), and quickly moved into a lead role. After the dot-com era imploded, I switched to independent consulting, and did product design and strategy work for big brands,
Location: San Francisco, California
Current role: CTO at One Medical where I lead the product engineering, support, IT and security teams
What is your background and how did you get into management?
I started my career as a tech entrepreneur. A friend and I had an idea for a new way for people to collaborate and ultimately ended up starting a company called Increo our senior year at Stanford. We took funding April of that year,
Location: Mclean, Virginia
Current role: Delivery Lead for Celerity Consulting
What is your background, and how did you get into management?
My background is engineering and continuous improvement. I started working in training development and then moved to continuous improvement project management, and then ended up in technology where I had the opportunity to lead teams. And that’s how I ended up in management.
What are the biggest challenges you face?
