Plato resources from the best leaders

Velu Alagianambi, Engineering Manager at Atlassian, outlines some of his actions to ensure that his team remains efficient and excited after his organization decided to become remote-first.

Velu Alagianambi

Engineering Manager at Atlassian

Velu Alagianambi, Engineering Manager at Atlassian, discusses how to successfully deliver complex cross-functional projects while ensuring alignment and commitment across the board.

Velu Alagianambi

Engineering Manager at Atlassian

Velu Alagianambi, Engineering Manager at Atlassian, tells of his efforts to empower a team he inherited to be more autonomous, self-sufficient, and productive.

Velu Alagianambi

Engineering Manager at Atlassian

Marian Kamenistak, VP of Engineering at Mews, outlines key recommendations and resources to make learning an integral part of the engineering role and knowledge sharing across the company a steady practice.

Marian Kamenistak

VP of Engineering at Mews

Ken Pickering, VP of Engineering at Starburst Data, explains how to structure a product engineering organization to maximize results and address inefficiencies through horizontal scaling.

Ken Pickering

VP, Engineering at Starburst Data

Ken Pickering, VP of Engineering at Starburst Data, outlines what skills and qualities he looks for in a candidate applying for a Director of Engineering role.

Ken Pickering

VP, Engineering at Starburst Data

Ken Pickering, VP of Engineering at Starburst Data, emphasizes the importance of cultivating the company culture -- particularly its most important aspects -- during a hyper-growth phase.

Ken Pickering

VP, Engineering at Starburst Data

Paul Sicsic, Life & Health Product Manager at Shift Technology, explains how to drive product strategy in a company that only starts building a product after a customer is secured.

Paul Sicsic

Life & Health Product Manager at Shift Technology

Paul Sicsic, Life & Health Product Manager at Shift Technology, tells how he adapted their existing product suite to successfully position their products in a new market.

Paul Sicsic

Life & Health Product Manager at Shift Technology

Paul Sicsic, Life & Health Product Manager at Shift Technology, shares how he brought one of his products on the same tech stack with other products.

Paul Sicsic

Life & Health Product Manager at Shift Technology

Sabeen Syed, Senior Engineering Manager at HashiCorp, explains how she initiated a process to address customer issues by creating a community engineer role that further evolved over time.

Sabeen Syed

Senior Engineering Manager at HashiCorp

Sabeen Syed, Senior Engineering Manager at HashiCorp, shares her efforts to single-handedly establish an in-house mentorship program.

Sabeen Syed

Senior Engineering Manager at HashiCorp

Sabeen Syed, Senior Engineering Manager at HashiCorp, talks about how she supports her team to come up with all kinds of ideas and why creating a structure that would encourage these efforts is vital for fostering a culture of experimentation.

Sabeen Syed

Senior Engineering Manager at HashiCorp

Guru Kini, Co-Founder and CTO at Fincity, recalls how he managed to strengthen the coherence of a remote team dispersed across different time zones and improve the team collaboration, and productivity.

Guru Kini

Co-Founder & CTO at Fincity

Guru Kini, Co-Founder and CTO at Fincity, explains how to build a culture that champions the quality of the product.

Guru Kini

Co-Founder & CTO at Fincity

Dmitry Nekrasovski, Senior Manager of Product Design at HashiCorp, recalls the recent efforts to for the first time introduce Design — on par with Engineering and Product — in the roadmap creation process.

Dmitry Nekrasovski

Senior Manager, Product Design at HashiCorp

Dmitry Nekrasovski, Senior Manager of Product Design at HashiCorp, explains how he managed one of his high-performing employees by helping them regain focus, make the right priorities, and prevent burnout.

Dmitry Nekrasovski

Senior Manager, Product Design at HashiCorp

Dmitry Nekrasovski, Senior Manager of Product Design at HashiCorp, shares how he helped his design team level up by applying a simple, three-step approach.

Dmitry Nekrasovski

Senior Manager, Product Design at HashiCorp

Roy Pereira, CEO at Zoom.ai Inc., explains why many first-time managers struggle with overcoming a sense of worthlessness as their new role keeps them from coding.

Roy Pereira

CEO at Zoom.ai Inc.

Roy Pereira, CEO at Zoom.ai Inc., speaks on his experience building a gender-balanced team in Canada and the efforts he made to adjust sourcing and hiring to meet his goal.

Roy Pereira

CEO at Zoom.ai Inc.