Interviews with Software Managers in Self Taught
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
Christoph Eicke, Team Lead at Xing GmbH
“Sometimes it's better not to know the details of the tech in order to ask the simple but effective questions to move a project forward, let alone move someone else's career forward.”
April 12, 2021 · #full-stack #linux #self-taught #web
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
Monica Lent, Founder at Blogging for Devs
“You have to have the big picture in mind. And that often requires sacrificing things you feel are important, for things that are more important in the grand scheme of things.”
February 01, 2021 · #fintech #frontend #self-taught
Andrew Heffernan, Director of Engineering at Validity Inc
“I was definitely drinking from the firehose, but I would not trade this experience for anything.”
January 18, 2021 · #cloud #self-taught #web
Greg Thomas, Founder at BetaRover Inc
“I’ve said a few times to the team that they are the first priority, before we release anything. As such, if they need me, we drop everything else.”
November 16, 2020 · #cloud #enterprise #infrastructure #self-taught
Shubhodeep Mukherjee, Tech Lead at Paytm Insider
“I am surprised everyday with how different people work with each other so well, and help each other to achieve their goals.”
June 15, 2020 · #product #self-taught #web
Dominik Hádl, VP of Technology at Nodes
“There's nothing more fun for me than learning something new every day. You can never prepare for everything, and that's why I welcome whatever comes as a new challenge and try to solve it.”
April 06, 2020 · #consulting #ios #mobile #self-taught
Paul Kuruvilla, Engineering Manager at Shuttl
“I love envisioning what a product should be and building it from scratch. Building tiny apps that I use as a manager strikes the perfect balance between building things and managing those who do.”
March 23, 2020 · #consulting #payments #product #self-taught
Arthur Sabintsev, Senior Manager of Software Engineering at Capital One
“Everything happens in real-time and a lot of it, especially at the beginning, comes down to following your gut instincts, which may not always be right.”
September 02, 2019 · #ios #mobile #product #self-taught
Ahmed El Gabri, Principal Software Developer at Lightspeed
“First, be a good listener and second, understand how to send a message in a way that the other person will understand it in the way that you want.”
December 17, 2018 · #frontend #product #self-taught #web