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Brent Goldman - Treating engineering management as a type of engineering

The Tech Trek
The Tech Trek
Episode • Nov 4, 2021 • 15m

Some of what Brent talks about:

  • Engineering management is made up of complex systems
  • Provide your team with a playbook and make sure the playbook is being executed
  • People are the most complex system
  • Build up engineering management systems and refactor

Meet: Brent Goldman is the VP of Engineering at Sisu Data, the industry's first decision intelligence engine helping companies make better business decisions with data. Prior to Sisu, Brent was an engineering director at Uber, where he founded and led teams responsible for dispatch, pricing, self-driving cars, measurement & inference platforms, and more. Before Uber, Brent co-founded Standard Treasury,  a YC-backed enterprise API banking platform acquired by SVB. Brent started his career at Facebook as an early engineer building the third-party Developer Platform, and he earned a B.S. in Computer Science & Economics from Caltech. Outside of work, Brent is an active angel investor with a portfolio of ~100 startups, as well as a conceptual artist building electronic & experiential art.

If you have any questions for Brent, please feel free to reach out via:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/brentgoldman

I hope you enjoyed the episode, the best place to connect with me is on Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/amirbormand (Amir Bormand). Please send me a message if you would like me to cover certain topics with future guests.

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