Startup Roles — Engineering

Vishnu Gopal

Engineering?

Architecture & Civil Engineering

Compare & Contrast with Scientific Research

Compare & Contrast with Invention

Engineering = Designing and building systems.

Software Engineering = programming, …

1. A good understanding of tools and techniques for programming.

2. Pragmatic choices between those tools. Balance between future

scalability and immediate productivity.

3. Business domain knowledge. Doing what is best for the

business.

1. A good understanding of tools and techniques for programming.

Backend/Frontend/Mobile

kamranahmedse/developer-roadmap

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

2. Pragmatic choices between those tools. Balance between future

scalability and immediate productivity.

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

When faced with two or more alternatives that deliver roughly the same value, take

the path that makes future change easier.

Choose boring technology

Innovation tokens

3. Business domain knowledge. Doing what is best for the

business.

Get out of the building!

Talk to the customer. Understand business domains as much as

possible.

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.