Leonard is the founder and CEO of Hello Chava, a company reimagining productivity tools for the solo professional. Over the past 25 years, Leonard has recognized emerging markets and launched multiple successful products with a particular focus in SaaS, Cloud Computing, and Collaboration through first gen products such as Hello Chava, Syncplicity, Windows PowerShell, and SETI@home. On today's episode we discuss scaling your leadership, being humble, racing cars and slowing down to go faster. Contact Info: website: http://www.hellochava.com/ Show Notes: How to Talk to Kids Will Listen HeadSpace App Just Listen: Discover the Secret to Getting Through to Absolutely Anyone

Given a jar of peanut butter, a spoon and a challenging problem, I feel set up for success!   I build and manage happy, healthy engineering teams that ship impactful products without sacrificing the user or developer experience. I like to focus on engineering culture (testing, performance + career growth), creating tools for engineering managers, internationalization, accessibility and improving the relationship between engineering, design, product managers and product support.   I'm in a happy place when using storytelling for impact and automating workflows to ensure best practices and culture.   born in Minnesota, I have Texas roots, where i graduated from the university of Texas at Austin. at Stanford, i tinkered with soldering irons in the HCI lab while pursuing a PHD. before finishing, i graduated with a masters and co-founded the machine learning company diffbot. later on i directed engineering at Coursera for six years and am now the CTO of a small startup called Hi Hello.   always a lifelong learner, my favorite conversation topics include: basic income, extending life, open source, crispr, equal opportunity in tech, android and vegetarian restaurants.   Today's topic is about, Should engineering managers write code?     links:   Twitter: @eleith   https://eleith.com   http://hihello.me/   Show Notes:   Applied Empathy: The New Language of Leadership   The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age   The Type B Manager: Leading Successfully in a Type A World   Radical Candor

Today's podcast is a recording of a live panel that I moderated which focused on nurturing an inclusive environment at technology companies. It was part of a larger event put on by the tech mentoring company Plato. The fantastic guests that I had a chance to discuss this with were: Shivani Sharma, Senior Engineering Manager at Slack Nick Caldwell, VP Engineering at Reddit Nidhi Gupta, SVP Engineering at Hired I have interviewed both Shivani Sharma and Nick Caldwell on previous podcast episodes and I encourage you to go to my podcast archives and listen to those episodes. Listen on as my panelists discuss the current challenges with diversity and inclusion at tech companies and strategies for helping to foster a more inclusive environment.   A special thanks to Plato for sponsoring this great event and for allowing me to use this for my podcast. Plato matches tech managers to highly experienced engineering leaders to help resolve their challenging management situations. If you would like to find out more information about Plato you can visit their website at PlatoHQ.com where Shivani and I are also mentors. Show Notes: Plato Website Video Of the Panel Discussion Medium Article about the event

Erica is an engineering manager for the integrations and data analytics teams at SalesLoft – where she’s helping grow the product engineering team for the 4th fastest growing software company in North America and #1 best place to work in Atlanta. During her 18 year career in tech, she’s worked with large companies, including Boeing, FOX Interactive Media and Turner Broadcasting, as well as early-stage startups--of which 2 were acquired, by MySpace and Oracle. Erica works passionately towards diversity and inclusion in tech, via education and exposure to opportunities. In 2013, she started the Atlanta network of Women Who Code, where she organizes conferences, hackathons, developer workshops, monthly tech talks and networking events for women technologists. In addition, Erica collaborates with companies to help improve strategies around diversity and inclusion. She also helps develop and teach youth coding programs, speaks at tech events and mentors entrepreneurs for various incubators and accelerators. On today's episode we discuss improving diversity and inclusion at companies and how important it is in building high performing teams.  We also discuss Women Who Code, The WeRise Conference and 100 Girls of Code. Contact Info: Company Website:  https://salesloft.com/ Personal Website:  http://www.ericastanley.io/ Conference Website:  https://werise.tech/ Twitter: @ericastanley Show Notes: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team Rooney Rule 100 Girls of Code Women Who Code Software Lead Weekly The Manager's Path

Dennis is the Head of Integration at HiredScore, a startup that helps large companies achieve their hiring and recruiting goals using deep system integrations and AI.  Dennis is a former team and group leader at Sears Israel working on large scale social e-commerce platform and before that he was a team leader and a full stack developer at the Israeli Air Force.   He is passionate about people growth and company culture. On today's episode we discuss the challenges, both logistical and emotional, when a manager decides to leave their team and company.  This is based on Dennis' personal experience leaving his past company and a blog post he wrote about it. Contact Info: https://medium.com/@dennisnerush https://twitter.com/DennisNerush

Katie is a Director of Engineering at Buffer, a globally distributed team with no offices, and O’Reilly author. At Buffer, she leads the engineering team focusing on crafting productive, effective teams and delivering a world class software product. She previously worked as software engineer before moving into leadership. Her writing has appeared in The Next Web, Inc Magazine and Fast Company. Contact Info: website: http://katiewomersley.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/katie_womers Medium: >https://medium.com/@kawomersley   Show Notes:   The Brain-Changing Benefits of Exercise   Brene Brown - Listening to Shame   Cate Huston Blog   Lara Hogan Blog   The Manager's Path   Manager's Tools Podcast   High Output Management   Julie Zhuo Blog

Rachael is an engineering manager for the infrastructure and backend teams at Lever, a collaborative hiring software product helping companies recruit and grow their teams. She joined the team in 2014 as a product engineer and was one of the first employees to kickoff internal discussions around diversity and inclusion. She transitioned into a management role over a year ago and is dedicated to growing engineering teams who have a strong combination of technical and soft skills. On today's episode we discuss best practices in hiring and diversity and inclusion in tech companies. Contact Info: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rkstedman/https://twitter.com/rkstedman Twitter: @rkstedman Show Notes: Lever - The Diversity & Inclusion Handbook Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well Textio - Augmented Writing

Four Engineering Managers from Facebook, Kabam, Clever, and Medium shared their tips on becoming a great Engineering Leader during the Plato event hosted on May 15, 2017 in San Francisco. Moderator: Christian McCarrick, CTO/VP of engineering at Telmate Jean Hsu, Engineering Management Consultant, former Engineering Manager at Medium Nikhil Pandit, Engineering Manager at Clever Inc. Richard Sun, Senior Director of Engineering at Kabam Yi Huang, Senior Engineering Manager at Facebook This event was sponsored by Plato.  Plato matches tech managers to highly experienced engineering leaders to help resolve their challenging management situations. Find out more and sign-up to me mentored at platohq.com. Show Notes: Plato YouTube Video of the event Medium Article based on the panel discussion

Jean-Denis Greze is Head of Engineering at Plaid, the technology company giving developers access to the financial system and the tools to build many of the most influential applications and services of the modern financial era. Companies such as Venmo + Paypal, Coinbase, Robinhood, Acorns, Betterment, Clarity Money and hundreds more are built on Plaid - whose investors consist of Goldman Sachs, NEA, Citi Ventures, Spark Capital, American Express, and Google Ventures.   Prior to joining Plaid, Jean-Denis was Director of Engineering at Dropbox, where he led the growth, identity, notifications, Paper and payments teams. Prior to Dropbox, Jean-Denis worked in fintech in New York and has CS degrees from Columbia as well as a JD from Harvard Law School. Outside of work, you’ll find him trail running, reading, or plotting his next vacation to Japan. If you want to learn more about Plaid after this podcast, visit them at www.plaid.com and check out the open eng roles on their career page - where you can actually apply by API. You can also follow them on Twitter - their handle is @plaid, or give their awesome recruiting team a shout at recruiting@plaid.com. On today's episode we discuss software engineering values and how to enable engineers to be successful at your company and beyond. Social Media Plaid’s website: www.plaid.com Twitter: @jgreze Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeandenisgreze

Ian Miell is a software industry veteran who has written, maintained, managed and architected some of the world's busiest systems. He works in financial services now, and also speaks, writes, teaches, and consults on various subjects, the common theme being how change can be managed within complex organisations and the raw technology that can enable that.   On today' s show Ian discusses the steps he took to change a team's culture that he inherited.   Contact Information: https://zwischenzugs.com/   https://twitter.com/ianmiell   https://www.linkedin.com/in/ian-miell-694496/   https://ian.meirionconsulting.com/   https://leanpub.com/u/meirionconsulting   Show Notes:   Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity   The Checklist Manifesto   The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement