Tips for Scaling Engineering Teams with Darragh Curran

SimpleLeadership Podcast

English - September 17, 2018 01:25 - 49 minutes - 48.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 17 ratings
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Darragh is currently the VP of Engineering at Intercom. (One of my favorite companies). He joined Intercom in early 2012 as a product engineer and Intercom's second outside hire. Fast forward to today, and he is Intercom's VP of Engineering where he has grown and scaled the organization into a world class Engineering team. Prior to Intercom, Darragh worked at numerous other companies including Amazon.com. Darragh is mentor on the Plato network and is passionate about the outdoors and his family.

On today’s show we discuss his path from IC to VP of engineering and tips on how to scale a fast growing engineering team.

Contact Info:

@darraghcurran

https://www.intercom.com/

Show Notes:

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