Sameer Mangalampalli, Head of Engineering at Tellius, discusses the challenges he is currently working on, including improving processes, innovating in the data space, and ensuring a positive developer experience. He also talks about the importance of understanding customer needs and building custom solutions, as well as the scalability and performance challenges of data engineering. Sameer emphasizes the need for a modular architecture and the importance of aligning technology choices with the organization's goals. He also discusses measuring ROI based on customer adoption and innovation features.

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Takeaways

• Improving processes and fixing broken processes is a key challenge in growing organizations.
• Innovating in the data space while also improving processes is a current focus for Sameer and his team.
• Understanding customer needs and building custom solutions is crucial in data engineering.
• A modular architecture and aligning technology choices with organizational goals are important for scalability and performance.
• Measuring ROI based on customer adoption and innovation features is a key metric for Sameer's team.

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Chapters

00:00 Introduction and Background

04:28 Structuring Engineering Teams

09:26 Measuring Engineering Teams

13:19 Improving Customer Onboarding Process

15:03 Developer Experience

20:05 Internal Tooling

26:33 Balancing Fast Thinking and Slow Thinking

29:37 Measuring and reporting ROI

31:37 Conclusion: Customer Focus and Continuous Improvement

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