From Engineer to Director of Engineering and how to Become a Technical Leader
summary
Journey from iOS developer to director at SoundCloud traces concrete moves: becomes iOS tech lead, negotiates architecture and product tradeoffs, navigates a reorg and laid off 40% of the company that cuts ~20 iOS devs to ~10, picks up backend work and learns AWS via side projects, then organizes a media streaming org that serves petabytes of streaming data and hundreds of millions of plays. Key lessons: say no, translate technical work into product value, and get mentorship early.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Start
- 4:37Becoming Tech Lead for Ios
- 5:45Thing You Wish Most You Had Known about What the Difference Is between Being a Lead and Being a Contributor on a Team
- 12:15How Did You Differ from Other Devs
- 15:50The Biggest Thing That You Learned as a Team Lead
- 28:08From Being a Techie to Director of Engineering
- 28:36Director of Engineering
- 35:40What Was Your Worst Mess Up
- 35:55What's the Biggest Mistake You Think You'Ve Made
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