Engineer as a Leading Role
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1. The document discusses the role of an engineer at a tech company, focusing on how engineers can lead both technical and business aspects. 2. It argues that tech-led businesses involve engineers finding customer needs, creating valuable products/services, providing them to customers, collecting feedback, and continuously improving. 3. The most important thing is for engineers to enjoy their work and find meaning in creating things that provide value both for customers and themselves.
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Engineer as a Leading Role
- 1. Engineer as a Leading Role DODA Tech Live - Sep 11 2015 Satoshi Tagomori (@tagomoris)
- 2. Satoshi "Moris" Tagomori (@tagomoris) Software Engineer Treasure Data, Inc. OSS: Fluentd, MessagePack-Ruby, Norikra, ...
- 5. HQ Branch
- 9. Me,
- 10. Satoshi Tagomori @tagomoris Software Engineer Not CxO, Not manager, Not founder, But programmer, But OSS developer, But tech blogger
- 11. 1. an ISP Java programmer for internal systems 2. a system integrator System consultant sales, pre-sales eng., project lead eng., team manager, tech consultant, ... 3. livedoor - NHNJ - LINE Infrastructure engineer Data analytics platform engineer 4. Treasure Data
- 13. Company,
- 14. Startup - Traditional • Startup company • It's not "Venture", "Small" • Traditional company
- 15. Tech or Non-tech? • Tech person: professional of technologies • Non-tech person: professional of something else
- 16. Tech or Sales? • "Treasure Data" is an IT Service company • CTO: "Treasure Data is a Sales company" • "IT Service" is made from many parts: • Software engineer, Support engineer • Sales, Sales engineer • Marketer, Product manager, Manager, ....
- 17. Product or Service? • "Service". • "Product" MUST be "served" to customers.
- 18. Japan - Silicon Valley • No difference between these • But a bit - English • It depends on size: • Large company&branch - almost only in Japanese • Small company&branch - English everywhere
- 19. What is the your branch for? • Only for sales & support? • For all? • Testing, operation, development, planning, ...
- 20. What do you want to be? • Sales? Sales engineer? • Programmer? • Programmer who does all? • from system design to operation
- 21. You,
- 22. Tech or Not?
- 23. Tech: Open or Not?
- 24. 1. an ISP Java programmer for internal systems 2. a system integrator System consultant sales, pre-sales eng., project lead eng., team manager, tech consultant, ... 3. livedoor - NHNJ - LINE Infrastructure engineer Data analytics platform engineer 4. Treasure Data Blogging, OSS Tech presentation, Event organizer, ...
- 25. Business,
- 29. Super tricky way: Promise to provide values, Make money, Then provide values :P
- 30. Sales leading business :( Super tricky way: Promise to provide values, Make money, Then provide values :P
- 31. Tech leading business • Find business seeds and potential customers • Create something to provide values • Provide it to customers • Make money
- 32. Tech leading business • Find business seeds and potential customers (Marketer, Sales, Engineer) • Create something to provide values (Engineer) • Provide it to customers (Engineer, Sales, Marketer) • Make money (Sales)
- 33. Tech leading? • Find business seeds and potential customers (Marketer, Sales, Engineer) • Create something to provide values (Engineer) • Provide it to customers (Engineer, Sales, Marketer) • Make money (Sales)
- 34. Finding business seeds • Requirement side: Marketer, Sales • Product side: Engineer • Treasure Data created Fluentd • Many developer started data management • Some of them use Treasure Data service
- 35. Finding potential customers • "Finding customers": Battlefield of marketers/sales • "Finding someone who has troubles" • At meetups, conferences, ...
- 36. Creating something valuable • It's our mission! • But wait, is it really "valuable"? • Hear well from your co-workers
- 37. Providing values to customers • Let's deploy and publish it! • But wait, do our customers use it in right way? • Hear well from your co-workers
- 38. Business lifecycle 1. Finding seeds 2. Create and improve services/products 1. Create something valuable 2. Provide it to customers 3. Get metrics and feedbacks 4. Improve services/products 5. repeat 2. - 4.
- 39. Business lifecycle 1. Finding seeds 2. Create and improve services/products 1. Create something valuable 2. Provide it to customers 3. Get metrics and feedbacks 4. Improve services/products 5. repeat 2. - 4. 3. Make money anytime you want :D
- 40. Improve your business 1. Finding seeds 2. Create and improve services/products 1. Create something valuable 2. Provide it to customers 3. Get metrics and feedbacks 4. Improve services/products 5. repeat 2. - 4. 3. Make money anytime you want :D Repeat 2.-4. AS FAST AS POSSIBLE By Engineering
- 41. What is Engineering for? • Create something valuable & provide it to someone • Someone: Customer? or, ourselves? - Both!
- 43. Enjoy Engineering! MOST IMPORTANT THING: Thanks!