Engineering Manifestos
14 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 months ago -We go on a journey with Engineering/Technology leaders to understand how they figure out what is needed from the Engineering team to help their company win, and how they apply that to their Engineering teams.
Each company context (company, business, marketplace, competitive environment) at a given point in time is unique. In order to succeed, a set of choices within Engineering on Objectives, Culture, Organization and Process & Systems needs to be made. We seek to gain an understanding of the tools and practices/processes for building teams and products.
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Episodes
Building Teams & Products with Deepak Sheoran
May 21, 2024 00:00 - 27 minutes - 14.6 MBDeepak Sheoran, Founder & CTO, DwellFi, sat down with me to share his principles and practices for building Teams & Products. 2:20 Areas a CTO/VPE needs to focus on during the early days 7:20 Details in the daily status updates that he focuses on 8:05 Secret sauce for 5-10X productivity gains over the competition 8:52 How to leverage AI for your Engineering team 11:11 How to go about making technology choices 14:16 Framework for Engineering bandwidth allocation 19:00 Framework for Eng...
Building DevRev with Dheeraj Pandey
November 20, 2022 02:00 - 22 minutes - 12 MBDheeraj Pandey, Co-Founder & CEO, DevRev, and Co-Founder & Former CEO, Nutanix, sat down with me to share his wisdom on Company Building, Customer Discovery and Building Culture & Teams. 3:08 [Company Building] Building relationships with people, viz. end users, buyers, customers, employees, partners 3:08 [Company Building] Building a brand based on values 6:40 [Customer Discovery] Begin with your passion, conviction and skill before trying to find an underserved market 8:28 [Problem Hyp...
Building ArmorCode with Nikhil Gupta
March 27, 2022 08:00 - 32 minutes - 17.7 MBNikhil Gupta, Co-Founder & CEO, ArmorCode, sat down with me to share the story of pursuing his crazy idea to start ArmorCode during the modern world’s worst pandemic. 4:19 [Provenance] Why Nikhil embarked on the ArmorCode journey (WHY "This Problem", WHY "Now", WHY "Him")? 7:10 [Pitch] Customer Pain-points & taking a "People-first" approach to solve them 15:00 [People] Company Culture & how it keeps evolving 23:02 [Customer Discovery (Process)] Navigating the delicate line between drinki...
Building Eng at RudderStack with Sumanth Puram
March 07, 2022 04:00 - 34 minutes - 19.8 MBSumanth Puram, VPE, RudderStack, shares the story of scaling the Eng team more than 10X, on the path from Customer Validation to Customer Creation. 1:58 [Provenance] Build tooling for developers 3:54 [Customer Validation (Process)] Hypothesis Testing of the need for a "CDP for Developers" 6:54 [People] Type of people you need in the initial team 18:20 [Customer Validation (Process)] Challenges with building a product for Developers 23:30 [People] How Transparency helps with scaling the...
Building RudderStack with Sumanth Puram
March 07, 2022 04:00 - 34 minutes - 19.8 MBSumanth Puram, VPE, RudderStack, shares the story of scaling the Eng team more than 10X, on the path from Customer Validation to Customer Creation. 1:58 [Provenance] Build tooling for developers 3:54 [Customer Validation (Process)] Hypothesis Testing of the need for a "CDP for Developers" 6:54 [People] Type of people you need in the initial team 18:20 [Customer Validation (Process)] Challenges with building a product for Developers 23:30 [People] How Transparency helps with scaling the...
Building Nirmata with Jim Bugwadia
March 06, 2022 07:00 - 28 minutes - 16.3 MBJim Bugwadia, Co-Founder and CEO, Nirmata, shares the story of conceptualizing and building Nirmata 1:38 [Provenance] Career move that helped plant the seed for building Nirmata 5:19 [Pitch] Empower every SW team to operate like Netflix/Google at scale 9:10 [Process] Being patient when building a company for the long term 19:50 [People] Importance of communication skills in addition to Problem solving skills 24:50 [Customer Validation (Process)] Product & Go To Market (GTM) Pivot to Op...
Building AccuKnox with Nat Natraj
December 31, 2021 23:00 - 43 minutes - 24.3 MBNat Natraj, Co-Founder and CEO, AccuKnox, shares the story of building AccuKnox. 3:50 Picking the right problem to solve 7:14 [Provenance] Bringing Phil (SRI), Nat & Asif together 17:56 [Pitch] Easy Button To Zero Trust 23:30 [People] Picking the right investment partner & building an “All Remote” team 27:20 [Customer Validation (Process)] Product & Go To Market (GTM) Pivot to Open Source 37:30 [Customer Discovery (Process)] Testing & Qualification of Product Hypothesis
Building Acumen with Nevo Alva
November 28, 2021 06:00 - 44 minutes - 23.9 MBNevo Alva, Co-Founder and CEO, Acumen, shares the challenges & learnings while scaling Eng at his previous company that led him to build a solution for addressing the pains of engineering leaders of growing organizations. 7:44 [Objectives] Weekly company updates & Product Roundtables to align Eng & Business 15:48 [Values] Transparency, Ownership and Team play 25:00 [Hiring] Building a team of Mentors & Mentees and Hiring for Potential 29:15 [Team structure] Commando teams and Army 37:00...
Scaling Engineering teams with Nevo Alva, Acumen
November 28, 2021 06:00 - 44 minutes - 23.9 MBNevo Alva, Co-Founder and CEO, Acumen, shares the challenges & learnings while scaling Eng at his previous company that led him to build a solution for addressing the pains of engineering leaders of growing organizations. 7:44 [Objectives] Weekly company updates & Product Roundtables to align Eng & Business 15:48 [Values] Transparency, Ownership and Team play 25:00 [Hiring] Building a team of Mentors & Mentees and Hiring for Potential 29:15 [Team structure] Commando teams and Army 37:00...
Building Eng at Impira with Anand Mariappan
November 30, 2020 07:00 - 56 minutes - 38.7 MBAnand Mariappan, VPE, Impira, shares his experience inheriting and running the engineering team and adapting to remote work. He also provides an overview of his 3Ps framework for enabling people to do their best work, by equipping them with the right processes and a clear sense of purpose. 4:00 [Objectives] Focus on time to market 9:30 [Company Values] Empathy (Virtual Water-cooler/Virtual Coffee and other ways to stay connected with the team) 14:10 [Engineering Values] Transparency (The ...
Executing on a vision to create a world without files with Anand Mariappan, Impira
November 30, 2020 07:00 - 56 minutes - 38.7 MBAnand Mariappan, VPE, Impira, shares his experience inheriting and running the engineering team and adapting to remote work. He also provides an overview of his 3Ps framework for enabling people to do their best work, by equipping them with the right processes and a clear sense of purpose. 4:00 [Objectives] Focus on time to market 9:30 [Company Values] Empathy (Virtual Water-cooler/Virtual Coffee and other ways to stay connected with the team) 14:10 [Engineering Values] Transparency (The ...
Building 1.0 and beyond at Rubrik with Fabiano Botelho
September 27, 2020 01:00 - 53 minutes - 36.5 MBFabiano Botelho, Founding Engineer (#2) and Fellow/VPE, Rubrik, shares his journey as an Engineering leader at Rubrik on helping build the teams and product lines for 1.0 and beyond. He also provides insights into his experience with scaling & growing the Engineering team at Rubrik. 5:25 [Objectives] Focus on building the system and getting to market fast 11:05 [Values] Examples of Rubrik values in action (RIVET) 22:02 [Collaboration] Building a connected team & traits of good mentors for...
DevOps transformation at VMware with Hüseyin Dursun
August 31, 2020 07:00 - 58 minutes - 40.1 MBHüseyin Dursun, VPE/Head of Engineering Services, VMware, shares his teams' Principles & Practices wrt Engineering Culture, Organization, and Process & Systems, as part of the DevOps transformation at VMware. 8:37 Everyone owns quality 15:00 Customizing development methodologies to work for your company culture; Building & Operating SaaS (BOSS), a page from VMware’s Engineering Manifesto 27:30 Book recommendation for leaders or anyone involved in Engineering/Technology development; Hirin...
Transforming DevOps at VMware with Hüseyin Dursun
August 31, 2020 07:00 - 58 minutes - 40.1 MBHüseyin Dursun, VPE/Head of Engineering Services, VMware, shares his teams' Principles & Practices wrt Engineering Culture, Organization, and Process & Systems, as part of the DevOps transformation at VMware. 8:37 Everyone owns quality 15:00 Customizing development methodologies to work for your company culture; Building & Operating SaaS (BOSS), a page from VMware’s Engineering Manifesto 27:30 Book recommendation for leaders or anyone involved in Engineering/Technology development; Hirin...