Journey of an Engineering Leader
Leadership insights from lived experiences and reading
Today I attended monthly internal engineering meetup of WeWork as a guest speaker. I was invited by long time industry peer NHM Tanveer Hossain Khan who is a Principal Software Engineer there. I spoke about Engineering Teams & Individuals in relation to organizational health and team structure to an audience of 90+ software engineers. It… Continue reading Guest Speaker at WeWork Engineering Meetup
I left Marqeta last week to join Twin Health today as Director of Engineering, Treatment Platform reporting into CTO and Co-Founder Terry Poon. As part of onboarding, I finished a long HIPAA training. So far everything is looking great. The team is very welcoming and my manager is highly respected and knowledgable in the field.… Continue reading Joined Twin Health
This weekend I attended the Java Developers’ Conference 2021, held on September 11, 2021 (Saturday) hosted by eGeneration. I was the panel chair for the 1st session on Java Spring Boot Microservices Deployment to Kubernetes. There were over 720 Registrants for the Conference, both from the industry and academia. I gave a brief introduction on… Continue reading Chaired a Panel for Java Conference hosted by eGeneration
I got to know Shahed Islam via LinkedIn when he commented on some of my leadership posts that I shared in my wall. We found common interest and enthusiasm in the area of leadership and management theories and practices. Hence we synced up in a zoom call one day and talked about why we are… Continue reading My Talk on How to Manage a Technical Team in Managed Coder
Marqeta began a new journey as a public company this June 9th by listing in Nasdaq. This is a major milestone in my career. I have missed it a few times in the past, but now I feel good that I have been part of taking a small startup to a mid-size public company. I… Continue reading Marqeta Successfully Executed IPO at June 9th
I have been thinking about using blockchain for content ownership verification for some time. I came up with this idea that may be a useful service or a platform if implemented. Let's visit a use case that this platform or service will be able to serve. A user or author decides to create a useful… Continue reading A Platform to Verify Ownership of Content
CEO of a Bay Area Startup is interviewing candidates for CTO position. CEO: How many startups go IPO out of every 10?Candidate 1: Only 1 out of 10.CEO: You are right. Next candidate please. CEO: How many startups go IPO out of every 10?Candidate 2: Only 3 out of 10.CEO: You are right. Next candidate… Continue reading Startup CEO Looking for a CTO
Journey of an Engineering Leader 