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.

8. Software Engineering =
programming, …

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.

13. Backend/Frontend/Mobile

14. kamranahmedse/developer-
roadmap

15. http://www.mrshuvo.com/blog/
2017/01/06/a-complete-road-map-
to-become-a-android-developer/

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.

19. Choose boring technology

20. Innovation tokens

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.