Plato resources from the best leaders

Peter Fedorocko, Director of Engineering at Workday, explains how to build a technically robust team with limited resources -- an exponential high-performing team.

Peter Fedoročko

Director of Engineering at Workday

Peter Fedorocko, Director of Engineering at Workday, explains how to hand over the team to a new manager and successfully approach each phase of the process.

Peter Fedoročko

Director of Engineering at Workday

Peter Fedorocko, Director of Engineering at Workday, discusses if a manager should keep his skip-level one-on-ones and describes how he introduced the Open Doors instead.

Peter Fedoročko

Director of Engineering at Workday

Peter Fedorocko, Director of Engineering at Workday, recalls his early efforts to build a large, multilevel engineering organization in a short period of time -- one step at a time.

Peter Fedoročko

Director of Engineering at Workday

Lloyd Holman, Head of Engineering at By Miles, explains why documentation is essential for any company to achieve excellence, particularly underlining its importance in onboarding new engineers.

Lloyd Holman

Head Of Engineering at By Miles

Lloyd Holman, Head of Engineering at By Miles, shares some tips on how to manage an engineer’s career development as he highlights the importance of an individualized approach.

Lloyd Holman

Head Of Engineering at By Miles

Shelly Bezanson, Director of Release at Thoughtexchange, shares her checklist of ramp-up activities that should help with the successful and seamless onboarding of a new person.

Shelly Bezanson

Director of Release at Thoughtexchange

Shelly Bezanson, Director of Release at Thoughtexchange, explains how she would approach an uncomfortable situation and effectively deliver negative feedback.

Shelly Bezanson

Director of Release at Thoughtexchange

Shailvi Wakhlu, Head of Analytics at Komodo Health, shares how she came up with a new promotion process that included more transparency and ensured fairness to their employees.

Shailvi Wakhlu

Head of Analytics at Komodo Health

Shailvi Wakhlu, Head of Analytics at Komodo Health, describes how she transitioned to a manager while still keeping some of her IC responsibilities.

Shailvi Wakhlu

Head of Analytics at Komodo Health

Shailvi Wakhlu, Head of Analytics at Komodo Health, explains why prioritizing happiness is all about rational choices and how her happiness framework helps her evaluate if some decision would bring her happiness or not.

Shailvi Wakhlu

Head of Analytics at Komodo Health

Virendra Vase, who has had numerous Executive Engineering Leadership roles like CTO, COO, SVP at startups like Patreon, Life360 as well bigger companies like Salesforce, Yahoo and Experian,, shares five useful tips he wishes someone had given him as he was embarking on his career as an emerging leader in the business world.

Virendra Vase

CTO/COO/SVP at Patreon, Life360, Salesforce, Yahoo

Virendra Vase, who has had numerous Executive Engineering Leadership roles like CTO, COO, SVP at startups like Patreon, Life360 as well bigger companies like Salesforce, Yahoo and Experian, elaborates on how managing up is all about clarifying the expectations with your boss and ensuring that there is a mutual understanding what success looks like.

Virendra Vase

CTO/COO/SVP at Patreon, Life360, Salesforce, Yahoo

Pascal Rodriguez, Director of Engineering at Bestmile, shares how his company created a supportive environment for remote work by introducing a self-service and asynchronous mindset rules.

Pascal Rodriguez

Director of Engineering at Bestmile

Pascal Rodriguez, Director of Engineering at Bestmile, explains why taking care of tech debt is important and what it takes you away from.

Pascal Rodriguez

Director of Engineering at Bestmile

Pascal Rodriguez, Director of Engineering at Bestmile, shares how he was inspired by an idea of a dream team when he was tasked to build an effective development team.

Pascal Rodriguez

Director of Engineering at Bestmile

Arun Krishnaswamy, Director of Data Science at Workday, describes how to build a data science team emphasizing the difference between software development lifecycle and data science methodology.

Arun Krishnaswamy

Director at Workday

Arun Krishnaswamy, Director of Data Science at Workday, explains how he defines underperformance and how that affects his handling of underperforming employees.

Arun Krishnaswamy

Director at Workday

Arun Krishnaswamy, Director of Data Science at Workday, elaborates on how he approached a single point of failure problem while sharing three key tips (or guardrails) on how to prevent it.

Arun Krishnaswamy

Director at Workday

Fraser Carlisle, Vice President and Global Head of Digital Product of iShares at BlackRock, explains how to achieve alignment across different time zones and by doing so bridge the gap between different markets, languages, and skill sets.

Fraser Carlisle

VP, Head of Digital Product, iShares at BlackRock