EP 71 : Building Engineering Culture | Pankaj Risbood, Co-founder & CTO, Zendrive | Engineering Manager Series

Mar 10, 2021

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Solving big data engineering problems, scaling an engineering team, and building core technology products - that's Pankaj's forte.

With 19+ years of experience, Pankaj co-founded Zendrive with Jonathan Matus and established the R&D centre in Bangalore in 2014. He leads the data science, engineering, and product teams at the centre which has 85 employees at present. With a knack for solving hard problems in computer science and generating valuable IP for the company in the process (16+ patents filed), Pankaj spoke at length about some of the most fundamental engineering questions of a scaling startup.

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- Pankaj's journey thus far (01:12)

- The common engineering problem (03:12)

- Application of AI / ML (04:54)

- What makes an ideal engineer? (09:46)

- Building an engineering culture (14:50)

- Problem-solving in Zendrive (25:57)

- Structuring an engineering team (30:01)

- Setting the right expectations (35:26)

- Growing in an engineering role (42:36)

- Working with other stakeholders (45:56)

- Hiring the right person for the role (56:55)