Alexandra Paredes's guest appearances

Alexandra Paredes

Geeks Who Lead Podcast (formerly CTO Connection)

Hiring Nowadays

The American Dream with Elias Torres

Anurag Gupta

Jeff Rose

Nick Caldwell

Justin Dean

Ian Bernstein

Scott Parker

Julien Lemoine

Ryan Oelke

Elias Torres

Clay Collins

Dave Zwieback

Adam Miller

Courtland Allen

Joe Lynch

Vince Horn

OwlTail

Booz Allen Hamilton

Booz Allen

Stripe

Alexandra Paredes (Engineering Manager at Stripe), and Tatiana Carett (Lead Associate at Booz Allen Hamilton) may have grown up 10 minutes down the road from each other in Caracas, Venezuela; but they didn't know each other until they both joined the Latinas in Tech community in New York City. Both Ale and Tatiana believe community is crucial to the success of Latinx in tech, so in this episode, Elias goes deep on what it actually means to be a community, and how to create a sense of community in the workplace.Like this episode? Please leave a ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ review and share the pod with your friends. You can connect with Elias and Ale on Twitter @eliast, @ale7714, and @DriftPodcasts, and Tatiana on LinkedInFor more learnings from Elias, check out his quarterly newsletter, The American Dream. You can subscribe at https://www.drift.com/insider/learn/newsletters/american-dream/

Alexandra Paredes (Engineering Manager at Stripe), and Tatiana Carett (Lead Associate at Booz Allen Hamilton) may have grown up 10 minutes down the road from each other in Caracas, Venezuela; but they didn't know each other until they both joined the Latinas in Tech community in New York City. Both Ale and Tatiana believe community is crucial to the success of Latinx in tech, so in this episode, Elias goes deep on what it actually means to be a community, and how to create a sense of community in the workplace. Like this episode? Please leave a ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ review and share the pod with your friends. You can connect with Elias and Ale on Twitter @eliast, @ale7714, and @DriftPodcasts, and Tatiana on LinkedIn For more learnings from Elias, check out his quarterly newsletter, The American Dream. You can subscribe at <a href="https://www.drift.com/insider/learn/newsletters/american-dream/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.drift.com/insider/learn/newsletters/american-dream/</a>

Fostering a Latinx Community in Tech (With Stripe's Alexandra Paredes & Booz Allen Hamilton's Tatiana Carett)

VP of Engineering is an expansive position. But what is it really like on the granular level? Alexandra Paredes is the VP of Engineering at Code Climate and joined Peter to discuss how she approaches the hiring process, keeps her team on track, and navigates metrics such as cycle time and code review involvement.Tune in to hear Alexandra’s thoughts on communication and transparency as well as mentoring new engineers to ensure they ask the right questions from the start. [01:28] - Alexandra's rise to VP of Engineering at Code Climate[07:21] - Internal metrics[12:02] - Milestones without estimates[18:40] - Cycle time[20:29] - Reliability requirements[21:59] - Code review involvement[23:29] - Incremental pull requests[26:34] - Tracking key abilities[29:58] - Communicating metrics to non-technical managementSpecial thanks to our global partner – Amazon Web Services (AWS). AWS offers a broad set of global cloud-based products to equip technology leaders to build better and more powerful solutions, reach out to aws-cto-program@amazon.com if you’re interested to learn more about their offerings.CTO Connection is where you can learn from the experiences of successful engineering leaders at fast-growth tech startups. Whether you want to learn more about hiring, motivating or managing an engineering team, if you're technical and manage engineers, the CTO Connection podcast is a great resource for learning from your peers!If you'd like to receive new episodes as they're published, please subscribe to CTO Connection in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you enjoyed this episode, please consider leaving a review in Apple Podcasts. It really helps others find the show.Podcast episode production by Dante32.

VP of Engineering is an expansive position. But what is it really like on the granular level? <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ale7714/?locale=en_US" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Alexandra Paredes</a> is the VP of Engineering at Code Climate and joined Peter to discuss how she approaches the hiring process, keeps her team on track, and navigates metrics such as cycle time and code review involvement.Tune in to hear Alexandra’s thoughts on communication and transparency as well as mentoring new engineers to ensure they ask the right questions from the start. <ul><li>[01:28] - Alexandra's rise to VP of Engineering at Code Climate</li><li>[07:21] - Internal metrics</li><li>[12:02] - Milestones without estimates</li><li>[18:40] - Cycle time</li><li>[20:29] - Reliability requirements</li><li>[21:59] - Code review involvement</li><li>[23:29] - Incremental pull requests</li><li>[26:34] - Tracking key abilities</li><li>[29:58] - Communicating metrics to non-technical management</li></ul>Special thanks to our global partner – Amazon Web Services (AWS). AWS offers a broad set of global cloud-based products to equip technology leaders to build better and more powerful solutions, reach out to <a href="mailto:aws-cto-program@amazon.com">aws-cto-program@amazon.com</a> if you’re interested to learn more about their offerings.<a href="https://www.ctoconnection.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">CTO Connection</a> is where you can learn from the experiences of successful engineering leaders at fast-growth tech startups. Whether you want to learn more about hiring, motivating or managing an engineering team, if you're technical and manage engineers, the CTO Connection podcast is a great resource for learning from your peers!If you'd like to receive new episodes as they're published, please subscribe to CTO Connection in <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/cto-connection/id1104346760?mt=2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Apple Podcasts</a>, <a href="https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy50cmFuc2lzdG9yLmZtL2N0b2Nvbm5lY3Rpb24%3D" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Google Podcasts</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/3GKpjcEH3ydikWnDDDBpLv?si=vm0dges2QiKoLehoFAR24g" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Spotify</a>, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you enjoyed this episode, please consider leaving a review in <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/cto-connection/id1104346760?mt=2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Apple Podcasts</a>. It really helps others find the show.<a href="https://www.dante32.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Podcast episode production by Dante32.</a>

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