Subject archive for "perspective," page 17

We recently caught up with Jason Toy, CEO of filepicker.io, a cloud file management platform for developers. Previously, Jason was a CTO and co-founder of Socmetrics, a topical influencer platform. As CTO at Socmetrics, Jason and his team supplied clients with business intelligence enabling them to extract more value from their current customers.

We recently caught up with Eduardo Arino de la Rubia - a principal developer for the Ingram Content Group, holding two roles in the company. In the first of these two roles, Eduardo works with Lightning Source, a print-on-demand provider. Manufacturing books on demand has all sorts of interesting data science applications, from attempting to predict downtime and using machine vision and image processing for quality control, all the way through natural language processing to understanding the content that passes through their facilities. Eduardo also works with Ingram’s Chief Venture Capital officer to fund interesting startups. He is a big proponent of using data science in the due diligence process for early to mid-stage venture investing.

As I've evolved from being an individual software developer to managing teams and starting a company—a data science platform—I continue to notice parallels between the principles of good engineering and the principles of good management. I have no delusions of novelty here but it's an interesting topic with a lot of surface area, so I plan to write more about this over the coming months. For now, I want to focus on one specific similarity: situations where "someone" is unable to do what has been asked of them.