"You don't hire for skills, you hire for attitude because you can always teach skills."
Simon Sinek.
- One of my favorite quotes.
- What is all of this about?
- About me
- On my engineering management
- What is comming next?
- Reach out to me
This readme is aimed to serve as a preview, a brief introduction on my management philosophy, my leadership style, my believes and what it inspires me to continue growing, and learning, and doing what I love and what I'm passioned about: the creation process of Digital Products throught the use of tools that contribute to meaningful innovation.
I have studied computer science and I have been dedicated to Software Development since 2005 and lately I'have been a bit far from coding which I really miss, for management tasks, deddicating my time and energy to build that mitic concept of "High Performance Teams" to real life.
Sometimes I feel the famous FoMo, (Fear of Missing Out) referring to Tech Industry, so to avoid it, I really love to dive into trends and surveys about tools and most popular programming languages, new launching. I also love to learn from tech innovation and disruptive business.
Recently I was introduced to a whole new concept, at least new for me, and way to perceive and appreciate the art of coding, called Software Craftsman. That's the reason why I am starting to navigate into that wide deep perception of creating software that will become an incredibly and amazing and maintainable Digital Product.
One of the activities that I enjoy the most, is cooking but if it is on a grill even better! I took it seriously, and I started to learn different techniques such as low & slow, fire management, cooking terms and tooling around grilling. At the end grilling is intimately related to software development, due to start creating from scratch, following a process of creation, certain techniques to achieve expectations and engagement from your users are needed besides, it will constantly iterate in the search of improvement.
I am a big fan of "Bricolage" or better known as DIY (Do It Yourself). I love motor sports, specially Formula One. I used to follow soccer very closely but now only world competitions. Yoga is another of my "guilty pleasures", unfortunately I left it aside for a while, but I am committed to reactivate it in the short term.
"Human error or Design error". "The Design of Everyday Things" by Donald Norman.
I like the principles of UX and Design Thinking when they put the user in the center, in that way we can empower them and build together amazing products, but also it will be maintainable and scalable.
I strongly believe that companies that care a lot about their collaborators are even most successful than others! The reason why I strongly believe this is simple: we are not robots or just "human resources".
That been said I opt for cultivating a proper environment to take care of each other and grow together as a team.
This is a brief list of the main values I feel more identified, and I would like the whole team is convinced of but also comfortable with. As your manager be sure I will be congruent in the daily basis and create the proper environment where everybody can live those values and to not miss any of them.
- Core values:
- Respect. I will always pursue the respect as the base of the human relationships. Respect reflects also the person integrity and their values.
- Trust. Building trust is a continuous work, that has to be done day by day. If we can trust each other we can grow all together, and quite often we as individual, forgot about it.
Nobody ever wants to make mistakes. From my perspective, making mistakes is sometimes a good signal that we are moving forward if and only if we are taking the lessons learned from those mistakes.
I value and appreciate you being proactive and acting with certain level of autonomy on your tasks. This is a great way to empower people, and empowered people naturally makes an empowered team.
This is a personal list of a few goals I want to start working on:
- Start coding on RoR. Exploring also, <Rubocop & Rspec>
- Start diving on Data Science.