Geeks Who Lead Podcast
Hear the inside stories of the "geeks who lead at scale" - Directors, VPs and CTOs running software engineering orgs at larger companies with 100+ engineers, and interviews with domain experts who can help those leaders to manage their engineering orgs more effectively.
I'm your host - Peter Bell, I've been helping senior engineering leaders to connect with and learn from their peers since 2010!
This podcast is designed for engineering leaders who want to learn the latest good practices from their peers who are way too busy operating to write an article or publish a book!
Running a software engineering org at scale is hard! You need to manage stakeholder expectations, attract and retain top talent, align and structure your org effectively and keep up with the latest processes and tooling. And that's before we even try to make sense of the potential impact of LLMs and GenAI on managing technical teams.
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Geeks Who Lead Podcast
Learning and Developing as an Engineering Leader with Stacy Gorelik
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This week Peter invites long-time technology leader and CTO Summit speaker Stacy Gorelik to the podcast. Stacy is currently the Director of Engineering at Flatiron Health, a health-tech company committed to fighting cancer.
Peter and Stacy discuss her career from individual contributor to engineering management to director, what she looks for when hiring and her recent experiences speaking at the CTO Summit in New York.
- [00:21] - Stacy’s background
- [01:12] - Transitioning from individual contributor to management.
- [02:56] - The appeal of an engineering management role
- [04:59] - Responsibilities of an engineering manager vs. director
- [06:41] - Ideal qualities in a leader
- [09:10] - Reflections on growing a platform engineering team
- [11:26] - It always comes back to the people
- [13:03] - What Stacy looks for in an engineer
- [15:15] - Learning and developing in the engineering world
- [20:09] - What it’s like to speak at and attend a CTO summit
You can find out more about Stacey on LinkedIn, Twitter and at her blog on Medium.
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