Venturing into Product as an Engineer
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Starts as an engineer and becomes Head of Product at Tech in Asia, makes a hard call to rewrote Rails/Mongo to PHP/MySQL and migrate engineering to Singapore, cuts a failing paid-content product, builds a startup/investor database and a jobs product, and scales the team to 27 engineers. Stops coding to run user research—typically 3–5 user interviews per test—builds a data pipeline and recommendation effort that still struggles with messy sources and hiring, and focuses next on mobile apps, data quality, and matching employers with job seekers.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:28Background
- 3:42Technasia
- 5:22YC Program
- 10:31Turning Point
- 11:43Research
- 16:09Challenges in 2017
- 18:26Questions
- 25:46Marketplace
- 29:29Webmind
- 32:09Debrief
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