#24 - Shane Afsar: how to be an effective engineering manager

#24 - Shane Afsar: how to be an effective engineering manager

From The Reconfigured Podcast by technolaaji

December 15, 2023 · 1h 46m · Season 1 · Episode 24

About this episode

Shane Afsar discusses effective engineering management and team dynamics.

Today's episode is with Shane Afsar, Senior Engineering Manager at Algolia. We have talked about several topics including engineering management, remote team management, dealing with legacy systems, getting involved in the business of things, how to know if someone fits your team, and much more 00:00 Intro 00:41 Shane's intro 01:05 Shane's role at Algolia 02:55 Developer experience, how does it work? 04:42 Algolia's crawler and how it functions 05:44 Shane's experience working at LinkedIn for 8 years 20:15 Dealing with legacy systems 21:47 Shifting from writing code to getting involved into the business aspect 23:26 Shane's experience at Twitter before and after Elon's acquisition 30:30 Twitter's Community Notes feature 31:55 The work environment difference between a big corp and a small corp 35:31 Switching teams in large corps and small corps 36: 53 The journey from software developer to engineering manager 41:07 Pitfalls during transition and what to take into consideration when starting out as an engineering manager 57:57 How to grow a team of 5 developers to a team of 12 cross functioning developers 01:05:34 How to manage remote teams efficiently 01:13:29 Fostering a culture…

People in this episode

Guest: Shane Afsar

Topics covered

  • engineering management
  • remote team management
  • legacy systems
  • business involvement
  • team growth
  • developer experience

Keywords

  • engineering manager
  • remote teams
  • legacy systems
  • team growth
  • developer experience
  • business involvement
  • mental health

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Algolia, LinkedIn, Twitter

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