The Tech Trek

Amin Lakhani - Should you elevate your best engineer to be a manager?

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Highlights of my conversation with Amin:

  • Attributes of a strong engineer
  • Technical excellence doesn’t always mean being the best coder
  • Impacting the overall organization is a key attribute of a manager
  • Empathy is a key attribute of technical leadership
  • Look for opportunities to affect the larger organization
  • Enabling collaboration between managers and principal engineers
  • Having “operational rigor”

    • Meet: Amin Lakhani is the Director of Software Engineering at ServiceLink after spending the previous three years at Microsoft. He has an undergraduate degree from DePaul University in Math and Computer Science and an MBA from the University of Illinois.

    If you have any questions for Amin, please feel free to reach out via:

    https://www.linkedin.com/in/amin-lakhani/

    I hope you enjoyed the episode. The best place to connect with me is on Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/amirbormand (Amir Bormand). Please send me a message if you want me to cover specific topics with future guests.

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