Career progression of a Tech Lead whose startup was acquired for $187MM
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Caleb Mellas is a Senior Software Engineer and Tech lead at Olo, Inc – a billion dollar restaurant company. He’s ran a freelancing business…
Caleb Mellas is a Senior Software Engineer and Tech lead at Olo, Inc – a billion dollar restaurant company. He’s ran a freelancing business for 3 yrs, went from graphic designer to frontend engineer to full stack engineer and now headed towards engineering manager. One of his favorite opportunities was being one of 8 engineers at a hyper-growth startup called Wisely that 4x’d their revenue and had a 9 figure acquisition.
Hobbies include: music (piano and drums), kayaking, weightlifting, spending time with my 6 yr old kid
I live in Orlando, FL, grew up in Chicago.
Outline
In this talk, Calleb will talk about his experiences and insights as a Tech Lead. These include:
What brought you into software?
What were your first roles like and what was your biggest learnings from them.
How did you grow into a senior eng and team lead.
How did you end up at Wisely?
Moving into team lead at a larger org.
The linkedin influence life: Curious to know your why.
A cooler segment where we talk about topics not related to the main segment
Vincent - Tattoo
Calleb - Learning drums
German - School life