Interviews with Software Managers in Devops
Nicholas Cobb, Senior Manager of Software Engineering at Aurora Innovation
“Realizing that life as a manager will have its ups and downs has helped me come to terms with navigating organizational uncertainty, team change, being supportive and addressing social injustice issues, and other challenges.”
April 26, 2021 · #autonomous-driving #devops #ios #self-taught
Sam Phillips, Co-founder & CTO at Residently
“I think leadership and management are roles that have enormous potential to do a lot of good in the world - to create the inclusive, productive environments we need to build great products - and so it's worth doing well.”
March 29, 2021 · #coaching #devops #self-taught #startup #web
James Meneghello, Engineering Manager at InterExchange
“A job is what you make of it, and you’ll enjoy your time in management much more if you go past the standard “check email, hold meetings” workflow.”
January 27, 2020 · #consulting #data-science #devops #distributed-teams #non-profit #product #remote
Tsvetan Stoychev, Ex-Lead of Backend Development at ePetWorld GmbH
“Don’t take the role because you would like to get status and recognition. Do it because you see a possibility to make things better.”
Arpan Sheth, Engineering Manager at Twitter
“Everyday I want to make sure that I have put my team in a place where they have clarity in terms of expectations and have all the tools / support they need to perform their job.”
Karen Cohen, Engineering Manager & Product Architect at Wix.com
“Progress and change take time, you have to learn to be patient and look at it from a birds-eye view.”
September 10, 2018 · #architecture #devops #product #public-speaking
Shishir Sharma, Director of Engineering at Pingpad
“My team's failure was my failure and my team's success was my success.”
September 03, 2018 · #coaching #devops #full-stack #startup