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Tido Carriero
VP Engineering
Segment
Currently at
I'm Tido. I currently lead the engineering team at Segment and am currently managing a team of ~30 engineers and have been at Segment for about a year. Prior to Segment, I managed the Product Engineering team at Dropbox (~170 engineers) and before that was a product engineer and eng manager on Facebook Ads/Pages. Excited to meet everyone and learn from you all!
Expertise
Sharing vision Leadership Hiring
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Luc Vincent
VP Engineering
Lyft
Currently at
Hello I'm Luc, currently VP Engineering at Lyft. Before that I was Senior Director of Engineering at Google. Looking forward to trying to learn and I hope my experience will be useful.
Expertise
Scaling team Reorganization Leadership
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Tasneem Minadakis
Engineering Leader
Uber
Currently at
Hi all, glad to know all of you. I am Tasneem Minadakis. I have been in the industry 12+ years and a manger for 7+. I lead Rider Growth at Uber. I have led Ad platforms at Yelp and Bing. I love coaching and hoping I can do that here while growing my network.
Expertise
Reward Career path Onboarding
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Brett Huff
Engineering manager
Trello
Currently at
Hi I'm Brett Huff, Engineering Manager over 5 teams at Trello (soon to be part of Atlassian). Before this I was VP Engineering at Fog Creek Software. I was a developer for Goldman Sachs and NOV Intelliserv (high technology in the oil/gas industry). I've had titled management roles for 3 years, have led teams without a title for 4 years, and have a total of 12 years experience in industry.
Expertise
Company culture Sharing vision Feedback
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Shivani Sharma
Senior Engineering Manager
Slack
Currently at
I’m Shivani Sharma, currently a Senior Engineering Manager at Slack on the Growth Engineering. Previously, in my first year at Slack I focused on test automation for iOS/Android/Web applications. In my 10 years working in Silicon Valley I have worked at Google, BigFix and IBM. I am passionate about leadership and leveling up people on my team to accomplish great things!
Expertise
Feedback Legitimacy One-on-one
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Michael Marano
VP Engineering
Kabam
Currently at
I'm Michael Marano and am currenlty VP of Engineering at Kabam. I've managed engineers for about 10 years, done consulting, run distributed teams, built products and teams from scratch, run engineering, product, and operations. Building great products is a social endeavor.
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Sharing vision Career path Roadmap
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Sid Gidwani
Engineering manager
Twitter
Currently at
Hello all, I'm Sid. I'm an Engineering Manager at twitter leading a few mobile teams. I've been at twitter for 7 months before which I was director of mobile engineering at August (august.com) a home automation startup for 3 years where I helped grow the company from 5 to around 80 people.
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Deadlines Legitimacy Sharing vision

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Limor Bergman
Senior Software Engineering Manager
DigitalOcean
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Hi, I am Limor, I am an engineering Manager at Digital Ocean. I work remotely from my home office in Colorado and I love remote life! I have 20 years experience in software engineering and almost 10 out of them in leadership positions. Prior to Digital Ocean I worked at VMware managing a group of engineers.
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Convincing One-on-one Feedback

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Thomas Döhler
VP Engineering
Typeform
Currently at
Hello I'm Tom. I’ve started my career as a professional software engineer in 2000, moved into managed in 2005, so that makes something like 12 years of management experience. I have worked with small teams, and have lead engineering orgs with up to 150 people. i’ve worked with hardware and software teams, managed teams across multiple sites, onshore, nearshore and offshore. I worked as an VP Engineering in TomTom, then did a gig at frog design, which is an international design consultancy. After that I worked as a General Manager for Amazon Webservices, running the Development Center in The Netherlands and building and shipping a new service, Amazon Workmail. I’ve been with Typeform since April 2015.
Expertise
Reorganization Scaling team Company culture
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Jean Hsu
Engineering leadership consultant
Medium
Currently at
Hello I'm Jean Hsu. After working as an Engineering Manager at Medium, I am now doing consulting.
Expertise
Reorganization Motivation Scaling team
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Simon Cohen
Software Engineering manager
Spotify
Currently at
Hi all, My name is Simon Cohen, and I'm an Engineering Manager at Spotify’s Big Data Infrastructure group. I’ve founded and closed a startup, worked in finance, tech, telecom, and security, and I’ve worn the pointy haired manager hat for roughly nine years now.
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Company culture Conflict solving One-on-one
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Christian McCarrick
CTO - VP Engineering
Telmate
Currently at
My name is Christian McCarrick and I am the VPE at Telmate - managing ~125 Engineering & Operations folks. I have been in technology for about 20 years with the last 12 in engineering management roles. I have become very interested in improving the craft of software engineering leadership and I hope Birdly can make a difference.
Expertise
Company culture Work Quality Hiring
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Nicholas Clark
CTO
DoubleDutch
Currently at
I'm Nicholas Clark and I'm the CTO at DoubleDutch (https://doubledutch.me/). Prior to DoubleDutch, I was an engineer at Microsoft for 6 years working on Internet Explorer and Bing. At DoubleDutch, I've grown the engineering team from me (and a company of 3) to around 45. Looking forward to learning from you all
Expertise
Hiring Diversity Career path
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Benjamin De Point
Senior Director of Software Engineering
Datto
Currently at
Hello everyone. My name is Benjamin De Point, Sr. Director of Software Engineering at Datto. I am in my 19th year in the tech industry and 12th year in leadership. I was a really bad manager when I started but have learned a lot the hard way. Looking forward to sharing what I've learned with others.
Expertise
Company culture Onboarding Sharing vision
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Oliver Petry
Engineering Manager
Netflix
Currently at
Hi all. I'm Oli Petry and I run the Device Reliability Engineering team at Netflix. I have held various management roles for the last 13+ years ranging from leading product managers at Motorola to running operations and QA for Smart TV team at Yahoo to now reliability engineers at Netflix.
Expertise
Scaling team Hiring Team processes
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Jeremy Wight
Engineering Manager
InvisionApp
Currently at
My name is Jeremy and I currently manage mobile engineering at InVision. InVision is a fully distributed team, so we all work remotely which shapes some of my thinking about management. In the past I've managed teams from the Product Management, Platform Engineering, Systems Engineering side, etc.
Expertise
Project management Onboarding Hiring
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Florian Jourda
First Engineer & Principal Architect
Bayes Impact
Currently at
Hi I'm Florian Jourda, currently an Engineer at a French startup called Bayes Impact Numa Paris and former e Engineering manager at Box.
Expertise
Company culture New manager Company culture
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Pierre Derome
VP Engineering
Scality
Currently at
Hi I'm Pierre Derome, currently VP Engineering at Scality, fast-growing company of more than 200 employees. I'm managing a large team split between San Francisco and Paris.
Expertise
Conflict solving Hiring Remote
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Karthik Balakrishnan
CTO
Coin
Currently at
My name is Karthik, and I'm currently building an eclectic team of engineers, architects, and policy wonks at A^3 by Airbus (www.airbus-sv.com) in San Jose. Previously, I was CTO of Coin (www.onlycoin.com) a consumer electronics start up based in San Francisco which was acquired by Fitbit in May. Most of my previous experience is in academia, and I have also worked for NASA and The Aerospace Corporation.
Expertise
Legitimacy Feedback Ownership
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Krishna Vemuri
VP Engineering
Townsquared
Currently at
I am Krishna Vemuri, VP of Engineering at Townsquared. I was previously Sr.Director of Engineering @ SurveyMonkey for four years. Before that I worked as Engineering Manager @ Evite, over all I have been in the industry for 17 years, out of that nearly 10 years in management role. I have worn both hats as an IC and a manager.
Expertise
Promotion Career path Legitimacy
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Sacha Arnoud
Director of Engineering
Waymo
Currently at
Hi all, I'm Sacha Arnoud and currently Director of Engineering at Waymo.
Expertise
Career path Motivation Sharing vision
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Yi Huang
Engineering manager
Facebook
Currently at
I am Yi Huang, and I support 50+ humans at Facebook in Menlo Park. I work on ads and previously worked at Google, Oracle Research, and Bell Labs all very briefly.
Expertise
New manager Roadmap Legitimacy
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Richard Sun
Senior Director of Engineering
Kabam
Currently at
Hello! I'm Rich Sun, and I'm a Sr. Director of Engineering at Kabam, Inc. I've been a video game technologist since 1999 and leading engineering teams since 2005, previously working at LucasArts, Planet Moon Studios, and Co-Founding Rogue Rocket Games. I believe having a strong mentor as I did is key to success as a leader and manager, and look forward to working with interesting people here!
Expertise
Feedback Work Quality Career path
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Vincent Mo
Engineering manager
Google
Currently at
Hi everyone, I'm Vincent Mo, an eng manager at Google for 5 years. I built the Google Photos Android/iOS/Web/Desktop teams and am now working on home automation for Google Home.
Expertise
Feedback Remote Politics
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Christian Jennewein
Head of Engineering
Blablacar
Currently at
Hello all, glad to be part of this great group of people. My name is Christian Jennewein, I'm an eng manager for 6+ years now, before I developed myself for 10+ years web sites and applications. Most recently I helped growing the engineering team of *BlaBlaCar* from 5 to 100+ people over the last 4 years. I'm about to join a former side project in the world of sports organisations as its CEO, called *TopScore*. Happy to be here and contribute
Expertise
Scaling team Reorganization Scrum
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John Cline
Engineering manager
Blue Apron
Currently at
My name is John Cline, I'm currently an engineering manager at Blue Apron. I've been managing engineering teams for about three years, and have previously done a couple years of non-engineering management. Before Blue Apron I worked most recently at eBay, and before that the US Air Force and Homeland Security.
Expertise
Feedback New manager Estimation
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Nikhil Pandit
Engineering Manager
Clever
Currently at
I am currently an Engineering Manager at Clever. I have been a manager for a few years now, and have mostly worked at early stage startups. I am excited to contribute to this community and hope to learn a lot myself along the way.
Expertise
Conflict solving One-on-one Company culture
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Braeden Kepner
Engineering Manager
Evernote
Currently at
Hi everyone, my name is Braeden, and I manage the backend services engineering teams at Evernote (search, product backend, platform, teams). I've been at Evernote for the past 5 1/2 years, and was an early engineer on our services team. Excited to get to meet everyone!
Expertise
Conflict solving Reward Internal Communication
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Tal Broner
VP Engineering
Egnyte
Currently at
Hi every one ! Nice to virtually meet you all . Currently VP engineering @ Egnyte . 15+ years of experience . Very excited to join this group. If you want to learn more : http://linkedin.com/in/talbroner
Expertise
Cultural difference Productivity Reorganization
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Andrew Miklas
CTO and Co-founder
PagerDuty
Currently at
Hey! I was one of the 3 cofounders of PagerDuty and scaled the Engineering Team for 6 years. I made a lot of mistakes and learned the hard way all these years.
Expertise
Sharing vision One-on-one Team processes
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Shivani Pradhan
Senior Manager
Dell
Currently at
Hello, I currently work at EMC as a Senior Manager, Software Engineering leading the Solutions team responsible for EMC's Cloud Orchestration Platform. I bring 15 years of leadership experience across Engineering and product management, driving products from inception to delivery.
Expertise
Feedback One-on-one Legitimacy
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Gordon Wintrob
Engineering Manager
Linkedin
Currently at
Hey, I'm an engineering manager on the jobs team at LinkedIn. I also run a newsletter all about APIs called GET PUT POST, you can check it out here: https://tinyletter.com/getputpost
Expertise
Deadlines One-on-one Motivation
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Joe Chang
Engineering manager
Google
Currently at
My name is Joe Chang, I currently serve as a manager at Google leading a team of customer solutions engineers. I started my career in technology after graduating from Stanford in the late 90's, and have flip-flopped from startups, to Wall Street, to now, a large company. I was the technical co-founder at my last company, Marin Software, which became a decent-sized player in the AdTech space, and is now a public company. Always happy to share stories and experiences, thanks to Birdly for bringing us together.
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Career path One-on-one Motivation
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Chuck Sweet
Engineering manager
DocuSign
Currently at
Chuck is an Engineering Manager @DocuSign, he has been managing for about 10 years. "It's been a terrific experience, and I've learned a lot along the way. I'm looking forward to helping out where I can."
Expertise
New manager Work Organisation Motivation
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Nicolas De Nayer
VP Engineering
Doctolib
Currently at
Hello! I'm Nicolas. I’m currently VP engineering @Doctolib; tech team of 40 souls. I’ve started my career as a software engineer in 2008. I’ve been an engineering manager for over 5 years @OCTO then @Viadeo.
Expertise
Delegate Scaling team Work Quality
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Joao Miguel Quitério
Engineering Manager
Talkdesk
Currently at
Hey all, my name is João Quitério (@joao-quiterio) and I’m an Engineering Manager at Talkdesk. Previously I’ve started a small consultancy shop and worked for Altran Technologies, OutSystems, Tekever and GE, I’ve been in the industry for 16+ years and leading teams and/or practices for almost 10 years. Before that I like to think I was a decent enough software engineer. Looking forward to be of help as I suspect I will have a blast (and learn a lot) doing so.
Expertise
Legitimacy ReorganizationOne-on-one
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Deepank Gupta
Engineering manager
Airbnb
Currently at
Hi all, my name is Deepank and I am an engineering manager at Airbnb (http://www.airbnb.com) leading the pricing experience. Before this I have worked at Linkedin and Google before on various things ranging from mobile to search ads. Looking forward to learning from you all.
Expertise
Onboarding One-on-one Motivation
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Pushkar Modi
Engineering Manager
Turo
Currently at
Hi everyone! Pleased to meet everyone here and thank you Birdly for organizing this network. I am an Engineering Lead at Turo (joined post Round B), leading a team of 9 engineers across platforms. Earlier, I was an Engineering Manager at Gigwalk (joined as a Lead Engineer post Seed) and led a team of 12 engineers across locations. I started my career in the valley at Yahoo! as a Software Engineer right after my MS in CS. Here to learn and share my experiences, if they can be of any help!
Expertise
Conflict solving Deadlines Company culture
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Hanjie Ji
Director of Engineering
Wework
Currently at
I am Hanjie. I work at WeWork, we provide shared workspace, community, and services for entrepreneurs and businesses. I became an engineering manager about two years ago and currently support 12 engineers in three teams. Looking forward to learning from everyone and helping the community!
Expertise
Deadlines Team processes Meetings
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Alex Bochannek
Senior Engineering Manager
Ticketfly
Currently at
I'm Alex Bochannek, Sr. Engineering Manager, SRE at Ticketfly in San Francisco. I have been working in Silicon Valley for 25 years including at Cisco, Juniper, DreamWorks, and some small start-ups. For a few years I worked at the Computer History Museum as a curator and historian before returning to engineering management 3½ years ago.
Expertise
Reward Company culture Legitimacy
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Antoine Boulanger
Director of Engineering
Box
Currently at
Hi, I'm Antoine Boulanger from Box. I worked for and co-founded small startups in Paris, before moving to SF 6 years ago to join Box. I run cloud storage, encryption and service orchestration at Box, where I started as a one-man team when we were a small company. I am passionate about culture / change management and the intersection of leadership with other domains. I hope I can share some of this passion here. Nice to meet you all!
Expertise
Estimation Client relationship Career path
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Cedric Laruelle
VP Engineering
Birdly
Currently at
Before working at Birdly, Cedric was CTO and founder of UniqueSound where he’d overview the whole tech team (people management and tech choices). Prior to that, he worked in bigger companies managing multiple teams and taking part in strategical decisions.
Expertise
Remote Team Processes Estimation
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Ryan Garaygay
Engineering manager
Agilone
Currently at
Hello everyone, I'm Ryan Garaygay, Engineering Manager @AgilOne. I've been leading and managing teams for 8+ years. Excited to be here and looking forward to share and learn.
Expertise
Hiring Cultural difference Deadlines
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Bradley Jones
Senior Engineering Manager
Yelp
Currently at
I'm Brad. I work at Yelp and am currently managing 16 engineers working on C2B messaging. I have been managing for around 5 years. Previously, I was a manager at Netflix and Amazon. Looking forward to helping and contributing.
Expertise
Collaboration Coaching / Mentorship Hiring
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Antoine Toulme
Engineering Manager
Acer
Currently at
I'm Antoine Toulme. I manage humans at Acer Cloud Technology in Sunnyvale. In my free time, I work on open source projects such as Apache Buildr.
Expertise
Promotion Reorganization Hiring
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Jean-Baptiste Pringuey
Director of Engineering
Teads
Currently at
I'm Jean-Baptiste. I work at salesforce.com and I am currently managing 10 engineers in the lightning platform cloud. I have been managing for about 4 years and previously I was a manager at Model N which I joined in the early days as an intern. Looking forward to helping and contributing !
Expertise
Coaching / Mentorship Roadmap Productivity
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Heemeng Foo
Senior Engineering Manager
Yahoo
Currently at
Hi all, my name is Heemeng Foo. I’ve been in the mobile industry for the last 16 years and currently Sr Manager (Engineering Services) at Yahoo. As part of the Mobile Excellence Team, I’m the owner of our Mobile Test Automation Device Lab and also run a test team for a number of video initiatives. For anyone who’s interested, I recently gave a talk in Singapore on running the lab (see bit.ly/heemengSlides2016). I’m passionate about technology and growing teams and people. I also tell a lot of stories drawing from experiences in applied R&D, serving in the army back in Singapore and growing up in Asia and now living here in the US. Hope to hear more stories and share what I know. Nice to meet everyone!
Expertise
New manager Reorganization Personal growth
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Manjunath Shankar
Senior Engineering Managers
VMWare
Currently at
I am Manjunath and I have recently joined VMware in my second gig here. I have been in management roles for many years now in different companies including two startups.
Expertise
Promotion Career path Set clear expectations
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Willem Avé
Engineering Manager
Square
Currently at
I'm Willem and I've been an EM at Square for 3 years, currently working on the Invoices and Appointments products. Previously was CTO for a 5 person team at BookFresh and before that was in the enterprise search space.
Expertise
One-on-one Career path Motivation
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Christopher Bee
Engineering manager
Uber
Currently at
I'm Chris Bee, an Engineering Manager at Uber. My teams work on UberEvents, UberCentral and partnerships for Uber for Business. Previously I was at Amazon and Microsoft in Eng Manager and PM roles. I've been in industry for a bit over 10 years and a people manager for about 4 of them.
Expertise
Set clear expectations Productivity Hiring
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Clive Henrick
Senior Director of Engineering
Kabam
Currently at
My name is Clive Henrick and I an a Sr Director of Engineering at Kabam - Aftershock. Ive been in the gaming industry for the last 20 years and love to help people and teams create great projects. My passions are getting organizations to run like clockwork while having fantastic engaged engineering teams.
Expertise
Deadlines Promotion Career path
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Vadim Iofis
Senior Engineering Manager
Ooyala
Currently at
Hey, I'm Vadim and I'm currently Senior Engineering Manager at Ooyala.
Expertise
Remote Motivation Sharing vision
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Michael Galloway
Senior Engineering Manager
Netflix
Currently at
Hi folks, my name is Michael Galloway, and I am currently an Engineering Manager at Netflix. For the last 20 years I've held various technical titles (Eng, Architect, CTO, director, etc.), and I've worked in a variety of businesses from small startups building web pages, to Yahoo, to a co-founded startup (acquired), to an enterprise-focused B2E late startup, and now at Netflix. My experience ranges from architecture and direct implementation, to management of distributed teams across the states (CA, WA, MA, and TX). My passion is in converting problems into real technical solutions, be they business problems or consumer, and in guiding my teams to grow out of their comfort zones and challenge themselves. I hope my naive optimism and limited experience will be of use to folks here. To quote a book I just finished, "I am but an egg".
Expertise
Hiring Team processes New manager
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Han Yuan
SVP Engineering
Upwork
Currently at
My name is Han Yuan. I'm the SVP of Engineering at Upwork (https://www.upwork.com) where I lead the engineering organization. You can read more about the team here: https://www.upwork.com/blog/2016/07/introducing-upwork-engineering. Before Upwork, I was mostly known for my mobile work where I'm intimately associated with eBay and Netflix.
Expertise
Legitimacy Career path Deadlines
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Charles Buckingham
Engineering Manager
InvisionApp
Currently at
My name is Charles. I currently work as an engineering manager managing the team that currently owns user accounts at InVision. My team is made up of awesome engineers living around North America.
Expertise
Remote Internal Communication One-on-one
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Greg Ross
Engineering Manager
UnderArmour
Currently at
I'm Greg. I'm data engineering manager at Under Armour working on apps such as MyFitnessPal, MapMy, Endomondo and Record.
Expertise
Work Organisation Estimation Feedback
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Javier Lopez
Engineering Manager
GuideSpark
Currently at
I'm Javier. I work at GuideSpark and currently serve as a manager at the Customer Facing Apps team. In GuideSpark we are trying to improve workplace communications and the way employers engage with their employees. I've been managing for about 2 years here and previously I was a manager in a couple of companies in Latin America. Looking forward to learn and share with you
Expertise
Hiring Staffing Motivation
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Simon Gong
Senior Engineering Manager
Box
Currently at
Hi everyone, I'm Simon, currently a Sr. Manager in TechOps at Box, leading our Capacity & Service Engineering team. Have previously worked in similar roles as well as in Finance. Looking forward to learning from all of you, and contributing what I can!
Expertise
Career path One-on-one Leadership
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Aaron Stone
Manager of Infrastructure Engineering
Life360
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Hey I'm Aaron and I'm currently Manager of Infrastructure Engineering at Life360. I do my best to build a cohesive team with strong sense of ownership, growth, and contribution to strategy. Looking forard to help!
Expertise
Budget Collaboration Hiring
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Tung Vo
Sr Director of Engineering
Medallia
Currently at
Tung is a Senior Director of Engineering at Medallia. After receiving his BS from UC Berkeley, he focused primarily on Computer Architectures and Virtualization before and after joining VMware. After four years with the company, he was brought on by Twitter as one of their first external engineering management hires and spent four years overseeing critical Platform initiatives. Tung began engineering management at an early stage of his career because of a simple obsession with the nuances of human interactions in a high-technical environment, especially at scale.
Expertise
Collaboration Conflict solving Career path
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Jared Jordan
Engineering manager
Evernote
Currently at
Hi everyone, I am a engineering manager at Evernote. I have been a manager at various levels for over 10+ years, and love helping people find there way and moving teams from good to great.
Expertise
Company culture Promotion Personal growth