Throughout his career, Arijit Mukherji (LinkedIn, Twitter) has been able to learn, innovate and lead. As the CTO of SignalFx, he gets to do all those things at once.

On this episode of IT Visionaries, Arijit details his rise through the tech industry, including a number of years at Facebook in the midst of its massive growth. Plus, he explains why he wanted to take a risk and join SignalFx, and what it was like rising from Employee No. 1 to the role of CTO.

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