Should Managers Write Code with Leith Abdulla

Given a jar of peanut butter, a spoon and a challenging problem, I feel set up for success! I build and manage happy, healthy engineering teams that ship impactful products without sacrificing the user or developer experience. I like to focus on engineering culture (testing, performance + career growth), creating tools for engineering managers, internationalization, accessibility and improving the relationship between engineering, design, product managers and product support. I'm in a happy place when using storytelling for impact and automating workflows to ensure best practices and culture. born in Minnesota, I have Texas roots, where i graduated from the university of Texas at Austin. at Stanford, i tinkered with soldering irons in the HCI lab while pursuing a PHD. before finishing, i graduated with a masters and co-founded the machine learning company diffbot. later on i directed engineering at Coursera for six years and am now the CTO of a small startup called Hi Hello. always a lifelong learner, my favorite conversation topics include: basic income, extending life, open source, crispr, equal opportunity in tech, android and vegetarian restaurants. Today's topic is about, Should engineering managers write code? links: Twitter: @eleith https://eleith.com http://hihello.me/ Show Notes: Applied Empathy: The New Language of Leadership The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age The Type B Manager: Leading Successfully in a Type A World Radical Candor