Masters of Technology

In this episode of Masters of Technology, we are talking with Louie Bacaj CTO Nines. Ex- Sr. Dir. Of Engineering. WALMART. We have asked him the following questions: 1. What does leadership mean to you? 5:40 2. How one can be a fearless leader? 7:15 3. How you can keep motivated? 9:42 4. How to reduce attrition? 13:08 5. How do you build trust, especially in this remote environment? 15:45 6. Tips for Dev Lead and Dev Manager? 19:15 7. How do you make flow vision across the Team? 26:40 8. What do you look for while hiring? 0:32 9. What made you successful? 37:10 10. Best Management Advice you got? 44:23 11. Worst Management Advice you got: 49:06 12. Your Failure. 52:54

In this episode, we are talking with Steve Cadigan, First Chief HR Officer, Board Member, Teacher & Author. We have asked him the following questions: 1. What is great culture? how you define it, how you can measure it? Can we quantify it? And what we can do to build a great culture? 2. You have to be authentic more than you are right? Would like you to throw some light on it. Love to hear any examples from your past. 3. I would like to know a few things employers do to turn every employee fall in love with your company. How you can create an amazing experience for employees. 4. I will be very interested to know who shaped your thinking most? Please share if you can, some examples of your learning. What books shaped your thinking most? 5. Your power is not your knowledge, but the real power is your network. Please tell me more, what do you mean by networking and how to build it ..second part of the question, how we can network in times of covid. 6. Not 360 feedback but daily one or two questions. what do you think about it? Isn’t it too much, and create a lot of stress for managers. 7. Four stages of Team development Forming, Storming, Norming and Performing, so my question is How can team moved quickly to performing stages and shrink Norming and Storming stage? Email: [email protected] Website: https://mastersoftechnology.org Podcast: https://rss.com/podcasts/masters-of-technology/

We don't need a star developer in the team, we need a star team. Listen to Hoop, talking about some backstories of how WCF code was developed in Zune, and why he is back in Nigeria? In this interview, we asked Hoop the following questions: What is Microsoft Mesh? Why did you leave Redmond Washington and went back to Nigeria? What did you change about yourself at every promotion to be successful in a new role? What engineering best practices you follow to build a product with a globally distributed Team. Hiring - What you look for in a candidate? As you are from an elite college, how much importance you give to the degree and college name? Worst Management advice you got? Best Management Advice you got? Favorite Books You worked closely with Satya, anything specific you learned from him.SHOW LESS

In this interview, we are talking with Jeff Perry, Leadership and Career Coach.Here are a few of the questions we asked:1. Who needs a Leadership and career coach?2. What self-test I can run to realize that I need a career coach?3. What is the difference between an executive coach and a leadership coach. 4. What are the attributes of a good leader? 5. How a career coach help. What is the modus operandi? How it works, do you shadow them at the work environment? Or just weekly 1:1 etc?6. What do you mean by executive presence? 7. If you can share, at least in approximate term how much your services cost.8. Favorite books

In this episode, we are speaking with Donovan Brown - Partner Program Manager. Azure Incubation. We are trying to find out about the man behind the black shirt.1. What does he do in his daily job - 2:302. Role of a mentor - 5:283. Presentation Secrets - 19:154. Dev/Ops Best Practices - 27:395. Tips for Dev Lead and Dev Mgr - 43:006. How to get hired by Donovan Brown - 55:007. His Failures - 58:408. The Worst Management Practices One Must Avoid - 1:049. The Best Management Advice - 1:0610. Books Recommendations - 1:07Watch it on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ptjfdFY98ik

In this episode of "Masters of Technology". We talked with Mahesh Krishnan. CTO. He is an Innovator, Thought Leader, Author, Speaker, and passionate Technologist. 28 years of experience in IT…having worked in India, UK, US and Australia.Regular speaker at local and international conferences. Worked in Wells Fargo Bank, National Australia Bank, Victoria Police, Telstra Health, AGL. Author of the books “Silverlight for Dummies” and “Introducing .NET4.5”. He was a Microsoft Azure MVP.00:30 - What you do? How big is your team etc?2:20 - How you will describe CTO job?3:45 - Any tips for young Developers who want to be CTO?8:45 - Give some tips to young developers who are becoming Dev Lead (M1) and some tips for Dev Managers(M2). What a developer should change about themselves to be successful in these two different roles?22:50 - How you will describe your management style?2:20 - In your Talk you talked about cognitive bias? Would like to hear more on it. What you mean by Cognitive bias?33: 15 - What methodologies you use in your company to develop a product. Tell me about the engineering best practices.47:30 - What you look in a candidate when you want to hire some one1:02:30 - We know to be successful in corporate life you should be able to manage up and down. Will love to hear some tips on it.1:11:30 - Tell me something about your failures1:15:00 - Tell me the worst advice you heard about the management1:17:30 - Tell me the best advice you heard about the management1:19:30 - The book which influence you mostWatch it on YouTube: https://youtu.be/X5KgEgd-AlIYouTube: Masters of Technology https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3yRa9veiLs3JCpIbKqqcJw

In this episode, we are talking to Eric Brechner. Career Coach.Eric is a career coach for underrepresented midcareer software professionals and founder of Ally for Onlys in Tech. He is widely known within the engineering community as his alter ego, I.M. Wright. Prior to coaching, Eric managed development for Xbox, Windows, and Azure engineering services and the Xbox.com web sites, was director of engineering learning and development for Microsoft Corporation, and managed development for a shared feature team in Microsoft Office. Before joining Microsoft in 1995, he was a Senior Principal Scientist at Boeing, and a developer for Silicon Graphics, GRAFTEK, JPL, and Bank Leumi. Eric has published two books on software best practices, holds eight patents, a BS and MS in mathematics, and a Ph.D. in applied mathematics. He is an Affiliate Professor evenings at the University of Washington's Bothell campus.Learn about his management philosophy. Advice for new Development Lead and Managers. How to set up a vision and make sure it flows down. Advice for Dev Lead and Dev Manager. How to move to DevOps. Best Practices of Engineering. How to transition your organization to DevOps, How he hire? Worst Management advice, the best management advice he got etcWatch it on YouTube: https://youtu.be/F643N2Awh-gYouTube: Masters of Technology https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3yRa9veiLs3JCpIbKqqcJw

In this episode, we are talking to Sumit Amar. Sr. Director. VISA. Sumit has been building a variety of software systems since 1999, and have been leading engineering teams since 2007. His experience has advanced from coding ASICs, Web Crawlers, and eCommerce sites to building large scale Search Advertising systems, Cloud Computing Platforms, and Secure Payment systems. Most of his work is focused on security and reliability in distributed and AI systems.He has spoken at more than 40 technology conferences discussing API Architecture, AI (ML and NLP), JavaScript, and Cloud Computing topics.He has answered the following questions:1. You worked in different companies, tell me one good thing you learned in every company?2. Tips to young developers who are becoming Dev Lead (M1) and some tips for Dev Managers(M2). What you should change about yourself to be successful in these two different roles?3. How you keep your team members motivated?4. Talk about methodologies, patterns,s, and practices. Tell me about the engineering best practices you use to develop a product.5. Hiring - What you look for in a candidate?6. Tell me the worst/best advice you heard about the management7. Tell me something about your failures8. The books that influence you most?Watch it on YouTube https://youtu.be/jbGVPnGGD7oYouTube: Masters of Technology https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3yRa9veiLs3JCpIbKqqcJw

Youtube link: https://youtu.be/-hOYhT8LNj0In this episode, we are speaking with Irina Frumkin. Group Engineering Manager Microsoft 365What is culture to you? What you can do to improve team culture. 5:45Tips for Dev Lead and Dev Managers 16:50What are the engineering best practices 23:11Hiring 32:44Failures 38:40Worst Management Advice 46:30Best Management Advice 48:57Books 51:00YouTube: Masters of Technology https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3yRa9veiLs3JCpIbKqqcJw

See the video interview here https://youtu.be/ywQgXUQhVVoMasters of Technology https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3yRa9veiLs3JCpIbKqqcJwIn this episode, we are talking to Mike Moor. Dir. of Engineering. Groupon. Former Development Manager- Microsoft, inventor, and co-founder of the www.Microsoft.com.Learn about his management philosophy. What does leadership mean to him? How he manages his big team of developers. What is the difference between Dev Lead and Dev Manager? How he hires, How to become a principal engineer in a year. here is the TOC1- Introduction2- Tips for Dev Lead and Dev Managers3- What are the engineering best practices4- Hiring6- Failures7- Worst Management Advice8- Best Management Advice9- Importance of being technical at a higher level9- Books10- How to become a principal engineer in a year.