Taking the Leap of Faith Into Entrepreneurship
with
Toni Johnson
OFFICE HOURS: Advancing Your Technical Career
Preethi Narayanan
In this Office Hours session, we are discussing decisions around advancing your career. Once we work for a few years after graduation, we often find ourselves asking the question - where should I focus? Should I continue being a technical IC? Should I switch to management, start a new company...
In this Office Hours session, we are discussing decisions around advancing your career. Once we work for a few years after graduation, we often find ourselves asking the question - where should I focus? Should I continue being a technical IC? Should I switch to management, start a new company on my own, or move into a new specialty? The worst outcome is being confused and continuing the course. Let's discuss how one can find the answers and advance in the direction they want. We will also discuss how to find that direction.
Meet The Speaker
Preethi Narayanan
Sr. Director, SW Engineering at Roku Inc.
Expertise:
My specialties include: Building teams that launches innovative consumer products, starting new teams from scratch , scaling teams to meet growing demands. I have been working on device software covering cellular, laptop, access points, echo products and smart TVs.
About Me:
Started as a digital processing software engineer in India in the early days of GSM, I have been working in different geographical locations and at many different companies. As I gained more experience, I started managing teams. I am very proud of the people I hired and teams I built. My experience included working at Motorola, Amazon, Intel, eero and now Roku. I also tried a few start ups in between. The best part of my career has been observing how the products I helped build changed the way people live and interact with technology.
I love working with engineers, building teams and delivering high quality products under challenging schedule. I really enjoy when teams takes up challenges and push boundaries.
Having worked with people from different countries and cultures and with multiple companies big and small, I learned to navigate different professional landscapes. Of course I made several career mistakes along the way. I am happy to help others succeed in their careers, wherever they are, with the learnings from my own career .
Q&A
Q&A guidelines-
how to get to a manager position from a developer
Posted on 2020-06-01 -
What entry level positions are you all hiring in?
Posted on 2020-06-01 -
What are things can do to get an offer on the spot?
Posted on 2020-06-01 -
I worked in systems engineering for 10+ years and want to obtain a remote position. What would be the best skill(s) or technical specialization to pursue where my age and physical disability...
Posted on 2020-06-01 -
Why are independent contractors mostly male and how can women learn to be an independent contractor?
Posted on 2020-06-01 -
If I know I want to eventually move into management, at what point is it best to move from IC to manager? When do you know when to do that?
Posted on 2020-05-28 -
How can I know if I am on the good track towards my goal?
Posted on 2020-05-27 -
What tools/resources do you use to keep yourself up to date with technology?
Posted on 2020-05-25 -
I have been a Project Manager for 7 years, would like to secure remote opportunity as a Technical Project Manager - what skills and/or credentials to take on in order to stay up to date?
Posted on 2020-05-21 -
I am currently a developer on a team. What steps should I take to advance from here and what options do you think are available for the next step in my career other than an engineering manager?
Posted on 2020-05-20 -
I would like to know what would be the next step in my career. I've been mainly technical and recently became an engineering manager. How to stay up to date with technology but at the same time...
Posted on 2020-05-14 -
Who do you think is the most innovative consumer product company right now (other than roku)?
Posted on 2020-05-10
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