By Henry Suryawirawan
Great technical leadership requires more than just great coding skills. It requires a variety of other skills that are not well-defined, and they are not something that we can fully learn in any school or book. Hear from experienced technical leaders sharing their journey and philosophy for building great technical teams and achieving technical excellence. Find out what makes them great and how to apply those lessons to your work and team.
Richard Koh is the CTO of Microsoft Singapore who played a major part in the Office 365 founding team. In this episode, I had an inspiring discussion with him around his journey founding the Office 365, the challenges faced, and on how to approach digital transformation adoption.
Crystal is a Forbes 30 Under 30 and was recently the SVP of Business Intelligence and Growth for Gojek. In this episode, I had a fascinating chat with Crystal on many things about startup and her exhilarating journey with Gojek as the first data hire. Crystal also shared her insightful tips on startup growth strategy.
Hongyi is the Director of Open Government Products (OGP), a division of the GovTech Singapore, that builds technology for the public good, such as Data.gov.sg, Parking.sg, FormSG, and Go.gov.sg. In this episode, I had an inspiring chat with him about OGP, and his challenges in leading and scaling up its initiatives.
Joshua initially started his career as a software developer, but over time became more interested in the people aspect of software development. In this episode, Joshua shared his views on how we can improve the people’s aspect of the software development by treating the people more humanely.
Trisha Gee is a Java Champion, author, and leader of the Java Developer Advocacy team at JetBrains. In this episode, I had a chat with Trisha about the current state of Java. She also shared some code review best practices and explained why reading code is harder than writing it.
Patrick Kua is a seasoned technology leader and is passionate about accelerating the growth and success of tech organizations and technical leaders. In this episode, I had an amazing learning conversation with Pat about the Tech Lead role and discussed deep with him on what it takes to become a great technical leader.
Sau Sheong is the CEO of SP Digital, a leading energy utilities group in Asia Pacific. In this episode, Sau Sheong shared with me about the digital transformation journey that he embarked in SP Digital, which led him to winning the “Executive of the Year for Utilities” award in 2019.
Sriram Narayanan is a Principal Consultant at ThoughtWorks Singapore, helping customers on their journey to Continuous Delivery. In this episode, we discussed in depth about what Continuous Delivery is. Ram also gave his valuable tips on how to become a successful consultant and how to manage client stakeholders well.
Stephanie Wong is a Developer Advocate at Google Cloud. In this episode, learn from Stephanie's great tips on becoming a tech influencer, public speaking, storytelling, building a personal brand, and CV writing. She also gave her view on how to empower women to thrive in technology and dealing with imposter syndrome.
Kief is the author of the O'Reilly Infrastructure as Code book. Hear from Kief Morris on what is Infrastructure as Code and why we should implement this important concept for managing our infrastructure, especially in the cloud era.
