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Sue is a technology leader and an executive, passionate about building highly performant and vastly scalable engineering systems with over a decade of experience. She is currently VP and head of engineering at Apartment List. She is excited about building a culture where people are constantly learning and growing, implementing and scaling agile processes across remote teams and all levels of the organization, driving diversity/inclusion initiatives & building products that solve people problems. Her motto is “Make a lot of decisions since it enables you to think, learn and grow faster” and she is known to manage chaos with a calm. Sue has experience building and scaling teams, managing product engineering, data engineering, infrastructure engineering and security teams. Sue was also well versed with M&A and successfully integrating M&A companies.
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6 December
Sushma Nallapeta discusses what happened when an engineer in her team, who would have been a good tech lead, was put into a management position, which she was unsuitable for.
6 December
Nowadays, it is very common to have remote teams working in different time zones. But how can you ensure remote teams are successful and how do you ensure high-quality collaboration?
6 December
Sushma Nallapeta discusses how she dealt with her relatively small team having too many layers of management.
6 December
Sushma Nallapeta discusses how she influenced her company to become Agile.
6 December
Sushma discusses how she turned an engineer around, from being a toxic employee into being a high-performer and contributor.
21 March
Sushma discusses how she kept morale high, even as her company was facing bankruptcy and closure.
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