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.
James Stanier is the SVP Engineering at Brandwatch and author of “Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager”. In this episode, we explored on how one can become an effective software engineering manager and how to build and run effective engineering teams.
Doron Shachar is an Israeli entrepreneur living in Vietnam and the founder of Renova Cloud, a Cloud Consulting Partner in Vietnam. In this episode, we looked at the essence of Israeli entrepreneurship and discussed in-depth about Vietnam's technology trends and his tips on how to venture successfully into Southeast Asia.
Tim Kobe is a design leader and founder of Eight Inc., an award-winning strategic design firm widely recognized as “Apple’s best kept secret”. In this episode, we looked at how successful brands build radical impact by creating ground-breaking human experiences with Experience Design.
Sandro Mancuso is the author of “The Software Craftsman” and co-founder of Codurance. In this episode, Sandro shared his great insights on how developers can become a software craftsman to achieve technical excellence, and the principles behind a successful software modernization.
Tanaka Mutakwa is the VP of Engineering at Names & Faces and founder of the Tech Leadership community in South Africa. In this episode, Tanaka shared with me his best practices for onboarding new technical hires and developers into the team, tech landscape in Africa, and his “NoDaysOff” lifestyle movement.
Ajey Gore is an Operating Partner at Sequoia Capital India who was previously the Group CTO of Gojek. In this episode, Ajey shared his deep beliefs and motto of “earn people, not money” in various aspects of his career and life, leadership lessons, and his remarkable journey hyperscaling Gojek engineering team.
Aino Vonge Corry is the author of ”Retrospectives Antipatterns” that describes the antipatterns and mistakes she has made from facilitating retrospectives for the past 15 years. In this episode, we had a deep discussion about retrospectives and how to facilitate a great retrospective.
Vaughn Vernon is a leading expert in Domain-Driven Design (DDD). In this episode, we discussed many things about Domain-Driven Design and Event-Driven Architecture (EDA). Vaughn also gave a sneak peek about his new book “Strategic Monoliths and Microservices“ and why he wrote it.
Arno is an inspiring tech leader with decades of experience in two major creative companies—Apple and Adobe. In this episode, I’m honored to have him sharing his career journey, passion, and his invaluable wisdom on how to build products that people love and what to focus on in order to create successful products.
Ranga is the co-founder and CTO of EverestEngineering, who is passionate about distributed teams. In this episode, we discussed how to lead and scale distributed team—the strategies and insights around hiring and onboarding, leading and growing a team from different cultures, and the qualities of an excellent leader.
