Theresa Vu - The Best Engineering Rapper

This is the story of TVu, Senior Vice President at Xandr, an innovative ad tech platform and also rapper in the band Magnetic North.This was an incredibly fun interview for me, I'm not sure if it is because Tvu is also Vietnamese or also went to Cal, but I think it's really because she's just awesome. Professionally, she is a successful engineer and also musically as a rapper!In this episode, we discuss:- Her family's immigrant story from Vietnam- How she got hired as the first engineer at AppNexus despite failing in her interview- Her rap group, Magnetic North- How distributed systems embrace inevitable failures- Graceful degradation (aka how to fail gracefully for non-techies)  - Emotional hijackingPlease enjoy this interview with the best Vietnamese engineer rapper TVU. - YinhTo find out more about TVU:https://www.linkedin.com/in/theresa-vu-486b603/