Building for Developers and Leading by Efficiency with Sophia Willows | Ep. 52

About this episode

Sophia Willows discusses her experience as a founding engineer at Rye and shares insights on building for developers and enhancing efficiency.

Sophia Willows is the Head of Engineering at Rye, a one-stop shop API allowing its users to build e-commerces with any products on the internet. Listen to Sophia talk about her experience joining a startup as a founding engineer, building technical roadmaps for a high-velocity startup, what key factors matter when building for developers, how to enhance developer experience with automation and ChatGPT, why choosing the correct Slack channel is an efficiency booster and much more. Hosted by Perry Tiu. Episode Links: • Rye: https://rye.com • Sophia's Blog: https://sophiabits.com • Sophia's LinkedIn: https://nz.linkedin.com/in/sophia-willows — Interested being on the show? contact@perrytiu.com Sponsorship enquiries: sponsor@perrytiu.com Follow Podcast Ruined by a Software Engineer and leave a review • Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3RASg8x • Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6Is85V7q2hLIBtmynIhnJr?si=perrytiu • Youtube: https://youtube.com/@perrytiu More Podcast Ruined by a Software Engineer • Website: https://perrytiu.com/podcast • Merch: https://perrytiu.com/shop • RSS Feed: https://perrytiu.com/podcast/rss.xml Follow Perry Tiu • Twitter: https://twitter.com/perry_tiu •…

People in this episode

Host: Perry Tiu

Guest: Sophia Willows

Topics covered

• developer experience
• automation
• e-commerce
• startups
• engineering leadership

Keywords

• API
• e-commerce
• technical roadmaps
• developer experience
• automation
• efficiency

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Rye, Slack, Sophia's Blog, LinkedIn

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