“Think about the earlier influences in your life: How have they influenced you in terms of the biases that you may have, the way that you approach dealing with things, the way that you approach dealing with people?”
In this talk at LeadDev Austin, Kevin reminisces about his early interests of pro wrestling and comic book superheroes. He digs into how these interests have influenced him by shaping what he picks up on intuitively.
He talks about how he grows individual engineers in their careers:
“The focus doesn’t have to be on the title. It’s more about what impact you can make as an individual as part of your team.”
Kevin compares how he builds out engineering teams to how Nick Fury built The Avengers:
“I looked at: what is the problem the company is trying to solve, how is this team going to solve that – and I try to bring together the right people to accomplish that goal. A lot of times, it’s not what people would think.”
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