Juan Pablo Buriticá - People grow linearly; organizations grow exponentially

Some of what Juan Pablo talks about:

• Lean into potential
• An early-stage startup can take risks to let people grow into roles
• Hiring someone with experience means you are hiring someone that has already made mistakes
• Experience can be a double-edged sword
• People grow linearly; organizations grow exponentially
• Interviewing is part of building software and you must account for that process

Meet: Juan Pablo Buriticá is a software engineering leader who has built and led distributed teams at companies like Stripe and Splice. He currently leads Engineering at Ritchie Bros, is originally from Bogotá, Colombia, and lives in New York City. After a decade of building distributed engineering teams, he compiled his experience in The Holloway Guide to Remote Work.

Juan Pablo has built high-performing software engineering organizations by emphasizing Open Source software values, technical excellence, trust, and empathy. He has also organized more than 10 software engineering conferences in the US & Latin America, founded multiple JavaScript meetups, and led the creation and growth of Colombia’s JavaScript community, now one of the largest Spanish-speaking JS communities in the world.

His favorite food group is empanadas.

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

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

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.