Startup Roles — Engineering
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This document discusses the roles and responsibilities of engineering at startups. It states that engineering at startups involves designing and building systems to solve business problems. It emphasizes the importance of understanding programming tools and techniques, making pragmatic choices that balance future scalability and immediate productivity, and gaining business domain knowledge to build software that best serves the customer. The document recommends talking to customers to understand their needs and building software with the end user in mind.
Startup Roles — Engineering
- 2. Startup Roles — Engineering Vishnu Gopal
- 3. Engineering?
- 4. Architecture & Civil Engineering
- 5. Compare & Contrast with Scientific Research
- 6. Compare & Contrast with Invention
- 7. Engineering = Designing and building systems.
- 9. 1. A good understanding of tools and techniques for programming.
- 10. 2. Pragmatic choices between those tools. Balance between future scalability and immediate productivity.
- 11. 3. Business domain knowledge. Doing what is best for the business.
- 12. 1. A good understanding of tools and techniques for programming.
- 16. 2. Pragmatic choices between those tools. Balance between future scalability and immediate productivity.
- 17. 1. Find out where you are 2. Take a small step towards your goal 3. Adjust your understanding based on what you learned 4. Repeat
- 18. When faced with two or more alternatives that deliver roughly the same value, take the path that makes future change easier.
- 21. 3. Business domain knowledge. Doing what is best for the business.
- 22. Get out of the building!
- 23. Talk to the customer. Understand business domains as much as possible.
- 24. What differentiates a startup engineer from say a top coder is this: they know how their software is used. And they build stuff for their customers.