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Interview with Jorge Salas, Application Development Manager at Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago

February 2, 2021 Leave a Comment

In this interview with Jorge Salas, Application Development Manager at Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago, we discuss how to keep up with tech, an interview question to ask, approaching difficult conversations, and how learning improv can help you as an engineering leader.

Filed Under: Interviews, Podcast Episode Tagged With: Chicago, Latinx

Inspiring LatinX Leaders in Tech

October 27, 2019 Leave a Comment

Read these inspiring interviews from different LatinX leaders in tech sharing their experience to help other leaders improve. Learn how they got into management. What are the biggest challenges they face? What is their advice for managers who are just starting out? And answers to many other questions.

Filed Under: Interviews Tagged With: Latinx

Interview with Alexandra Paredes, Head of Engineering at Code Climate

October 21, 2019 Leave a Comment

What’s your background and how did you get into management?

I studied Computer Science in Caracas, Venezuela. Before finishing college, around 2009, I was working part-time building mobile applications for BlackBerry and Android using Java and PhoneGap (currently known as Apache Cordova). Building things that others found useful was thrilling. I treasured this experience because it served as a good introduction to understanding that “shipping” a product is more than coding. 

In the following years,

Filed Under: Interviews Tagged With: head of engineering, Latinx, New York City, WomenInTech

Interview with Federico Soria, Engineering Manager at Airbnb

October 9, 2019 Leave a Comment

In this interview (also available as a podcast), with Federico Soria, Engineering Manager at Airbnb, we discuss inbox zero, diversity and inclusion, hiring strategies in the highly competitive SF Bay Area, and hacking career development.

Filed Under: Interviews Tagged With: engineering manager, Latinx, San Francisco

Interview with Juan Pablo Buritica Vice President of Engineering at Splice

June 16, 2019 Leave a Comment

  • What’s your background and how did you get into management?
  • What are the biggest challenges you face?
  • What are your thoughts on diversity?
  • What is your approach to hiring?
  • What’s your advice for managers who are just starting out?
  • What’s your workday like and how do you manage your time, emails, etc.?
  • What’s a personal habit that contributes to your success?

Filed Under: Interviews, Podcast Episode Tagged With: BestOfManagersClub, Latinx, New York City, VP

Interview with Andrew Mairena, MBA student at MIT Sloan School of Management (and formerly Application Engineering Manager at Thermo Fisher Scientific)

February 21, 2018 Leave a Comment

Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts. After working for several years in Silicon Valley, I decided to go back to school to obtain my MBA.
Current role: MBA student at MIT Sloan School of Management (and formerly Application Engineering Manager at Thermo Fisher Scientific)

What’s your background and how did you get into management?

I graduated from UC Berkeley in 2010 with a degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. I’m an engineer by training and I worked in a few organizations,

Filed Under: Interviews Tagged With: Latinx

Interview with Rui Peres, Engineering Manager at Babylon Health

February 19, 2018 Leave a Comment

Location: London, UK
Current role: Engineering Manager at Babylon Health

What’s your background and how did you get into management?

Most of my background has been as a frontend software engineer within the Apple ecosystem, since 2010. I worked in several companies in Portugal, Switzerland and now in the UK (London). The management opportunity was something that evolved from a position of Lead iOS engineer, where I was defining parts of the architecture and pushing for a FRP (Functional Reactive Programming) approach.

Filed Under: Interviews Tagged With: Latinx

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