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On today's episode of Developer Tea we're joined by Ravs Kaur. Ravs is the CTO at Uplevel and in the next two episodes she joins us to talk about leadership and management.  🌎 Ravs on the WebLinkedInUplevel twitterUplevel Website ✨ Sponsor: DeepSourceThanks to DeepSource for supporting the show!DeepSource continuously analyzes source code changes using static analysis to find and fix issues categorized as security, performance, anti-patterns and bug-risks. It integrates with GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket and runs analysis on every commit and pull request, discovers and fixes potential issues before they make it to production.Generally available analyzers: Python, Go and RubyPlus it's Free to use for open-source repositories and small teams. Check it out and let them know we sent you: deepsource.io/devtea 📮 Ask a Question If you enjoyed this episode and would like me to discuss a question that you have on the show, drop it over at: developertea.com.  🧡 Leave a ReviewIf you're enjoying the show and want to support the content head over to iTunes and leave a review! It helps other developers discover the show and keep us focused on what matters to you.

On today's episode of Developer Tea we're joined by Ravs Kaur. Ravs is the CTO at <a href="https://uplevelteam.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Uplevel</a> and in the next two episodes she joins us to talk about leadership and management.  <h2>🌎 Ravs on the Web</h2><ul><li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ravs-kaur-653b245/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/uplevelteam?lang=en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Uplevel twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://uplevelteam.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Uplevel Website</a></li></ul><h2> </h2><h2>✨ Sponsor: <a href="https://deepsource.io/?ref=devtea" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">DeepSource</a></h2>Thanks to <a href="https://deepsource.io/?ref=devtea" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">DeepSource</a> for supporting the show!DeepSource continuously analyzes source code changes using static analysis to find and fix issues categorized as security, performance, anti-patterns and bug-risks. It integrates with GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket and runs analysis on every commit and pull request, discovers and fixes potential issues before they make it to production.Generally available analyzers: Python, Go and RubyPlus it's Free to use for open-source repositories and small teams. Check it out and let them know we sent you: <a href="https://deepsource.io/?ref=devtea" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">deepsource.io/devtea</a><h2> </h2><h2>📮 Ask a Question </h2>If you enjoyed this episode and would like me to discuss a question that you have on the show, drop it over at: <a href="https://www.developertea.com/contact" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">developertea.com. </a><h2> </h2><h2>🧡 Leave a Review</h2>If you're enjoying the show and want to support the content head over to iTunes and <a href="https://ratethispodcast.com/devtea" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">leave a review</a>! It helps other developers discover the show and keep us focused on what matters to you.

Leadership & Management w/ Ravs Kaur (part 2)

In today's episode of Developer Tea we're joined by Ravs Kaur. Ravs is the CTO at Uplevel and in the next two episodes she joins us to talk about leadership and management.  🌎 Ravs on the WebLinkedInUplevel twitterUplevel Website ✨ Sponsor: LinodeThank you to long time sponsor and friends of the show Linode for sponsoring today's episode!Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and easier.Listeners of Developer Tea can now enjoy $100 in free credit! You can find all the details at linode.com/developertea.📮 Ask a Question If you enjoyed this episode and would like me to discuss a question that you have on the show, drop it over at: developertea.com. 🧡 Leave a ReviewIf you're enjoying the show and want to support the content head over to iTunes and leave a review! It helps other developers discover the show and keep us focused on what matters to you.

In today's episode of Developer Tea we're joined by Ravs Kaur. Ravs is the CTO at <a href="https://uplevelteam.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Uplevel</a> and in the next two episodes she joins us to talk about leadership and management.  <h2>🌎 Ravs on the Web</h2><ul><li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ravs-kaur-653b245/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/uplevelteam?lang=en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Uplevel twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://uplevelteam.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Uplevel Website</a></li></ul> <h2>✨ Sponsor: <a href="https://promo.linode.com/developertea/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Linode</a></h2>Thank you to long time sponsor and friends of the show <a href="https://promo.linode.com/developertea/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Linode</a> for sponsoring today's episode!Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and easier.Listeners of Developer Tea can now enjoy $100 in free credit! You can find all the details at <a href="https://promo.linode.com/developertea/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">linode.com/developertea</a>.<h2>📮 Ask a Question </h2>If you enjoyed this episode and would like me to discuss a question that you have on the show, drop it over at: <a href="https://www.developertea.com/contact" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">developertea.com. </a><h2>🧡 Leave a Review</h2>If you're enjoying the show and want to support the content head over to iTunes and <a href="https://ratethispodcast.com/devtea" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">leave a review</a>! It helps other developers discover the show and keep us focused on what matters to you.

Leadership & Management w/ Ravs Kaur (part 1)

02:30 - Rav’s Superpower: Learning to Learn  Success and Failure Creating Environments Where It’s Safe to Fail Exploring Ideas and Collecting Datapoints Celebrating Feedback Cycles and Experiments  07:12 - Failing Fast – Getting Early Feedback Along the Way  Getting Over the “Being Polished” Hump Learning for Self-Fulfilment  17:02 - Empathy as a Life Skill  Simulation Empathy is Necessary to Learn Through Failure  26:40 - Uplevel: Empowering Engineers to do Their Best Work 31:49 - Productivity and Judgement Value  The Effect the Pandemic Has Had ^ Capturing Interruptions and Mitigating Responses The “is work happening?” panic and fear and the worry “is innovation at the same level?” The Ecology of Human Performance: A Framework for Considering the Effect of Context  41:42 - Using Data to Measure Well-Being and/or Engagement  Process Tracing Why use ambient data?  Reflections: Rein: 1) We need to take human performance necessary. 2) Steven Shorrock’s Model of Change. Jacob: Thinking more about ambient data. Jamey: Failing fast. Ravs: How do you know if you’ve built a great product if you don’t have a way to measure what people are clicking on and/or trying to find? This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep of DevReps, LLC. To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps. You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well.Special Guest: Ravs Kaur.Sponsored By:strongDM: Today's show is sponsored by strongDM.Managing your remote team as they work from home? Managing a gazillion SSH keys, database passwords, and Kubernetes certs?Meet strongDM. Manage and audit access to servers, databases, and Kubernetes clusters, no matter where your employees are.With strongDM, easily extend your identity provider to manage infrastructure access. Automate onboarding, offboarding, and moving people within roles. Grant temporary access that automatically expires to on-call teams.Admins get full auditability into anything anyone does: when they connect, what queries they run, what commands are typed. It's full visibility into everything. For SSH, RDP, and Kubernetes, that means video replays. For databases, it's a single unified query log across all database management systems.strongDM is used by companies like Hearst, Peloton, Betterment, Greenhouse, and SoFi to manage access. It's more control and less hassle.strongDM. Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure.Start your free 14-day trial today at strongdm.com/SDTlive@Manning conference: Let's talk about #Rust! Sep 15, at the live@Manning conference; in one Rust-full day go from ways to learn it, to where and how to use it; from game-dev to aerospace and beyond, right from the pincers of expert Rustaceans. Finding Rustaceans weird but intriguing? Secretly wanting to become one? Tune-in, Sep 15, to the live@Manning #Rust conference to find your #Rustlang pincers! Striving to build reliable and efficient software, but finding your language of choice lacking in some key departments? Find the solution with Ferris the crab and the Rustacean tribe. When? Sep 15, at the live@Manning Rust conference!Virtual Genius: Collaboration between different disciplines in your organization can be difficult, and finding clarity and alignment on both the right problem to solve and the right solution design is even more so. We each approach improvement from our own (limited) perspective, without taking into account the whole story. How is that effective?Paul Rayner's EventStorming Facilitation Virtual Workshop is a multi-day online event that promotes collaboration between different disciplines in order to solve business problems in the most effective way.This virtual workshop with Paul consists of 4 sessions on Sep 28-Oct 1 from 9am-Noon (CDT) each day. To register and get 20% off your ticket, visit virtualgenious.com/events and use the code VGGTC.In this highly hands-on and interactive virtual workshop you'll learn advanced EventStorming facilitation skills spanning from large scale business discovery to collaborative solution design at the team level.Once again to get 20% off your ticket, visit virtualgenious.com/events and use the code VGGTC. Promo Code: VGGTCSupport Greater Than Code

02:30 - Rav’s Superpower: Learning to Learn <ul> <li>Success and Failure</li> <li>Creating Environments Where It’s Safe to Fail</li> <li>Exploring Ideas and Collecting Datapoints</li> <li>Celebrating Feedback Cycles and Experiments</li> </ul> 07:12 - Failing Fast – Getting Early Feedback Along the Way <ul> <li>Getting Over the “Being Polished” Hump</li> <li>Learning for Self-Fulfilment</li> </ul> 17:02 - Empathy as a Life Skill <ul> <li>Simulation</li> <li>Empathy is Necessary to Learn Through Failure</li> </ul> 26:40 - <a href="https://uplevelteam.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Uplevel</a>: Empowering Engineers to do Their Best Work 31:49 - Productivity and Judgement Value <ul> <li>The Effect the Pandemic Has Had ^</li> <li>Capturing Interruptions and Mitigating Responses</li> <li>The “is work happening?” panic and fear and the worry “is innovation at the same level?”</li> <li><a href="https://ajot.aota.org/article.aspx?articleid=1873303" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Ecology of Human Performance: A Framework for Considering the Effect of Context</a></li> </ul> 41:42 - Using Data to Measure Well-Being and/or Engagement <ul> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process_tracing#:%7E:text=Process%20tracing%20is%20a%20method,political%20science%2C%20or%20usability%20studies." rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Process Tracing</a></li> <li>Why use <a href="https://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/latent-data-ambient-data#:%7E:text=Latent%20data%2C%20also%20known%20as,(OS)%20or%20standard%20applications." rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ambient data</a>?</li> </ul> Reflections: Rein: 1) We need to take human performance necessary. 2) Steven Shorrock’s Model of Change. Jacob: Thinking more about ambient data. Jamey: Failing fast. Ravs: How do you know if you’ve built a great product if you don’t have a way to measure what people are clicking on and/or trying to find? This episode was brought to you by <a href="https://twitter.com/therubyrep" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@therubyrep</a> of <a href="http://www.devreps.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">DevReps, LLC</a>. To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit <a href="https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">patreon.com/greaterthancode</a> To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at <a href="https://www.paypal.me/devreps" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">paypal.me/devreps</a>. You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well.Special Guest: Ravs Kaur.Sponsored By:<ul><li><a href="https://strongdm.com/SDT" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">strongDM</a>: <a href="https://strongdm.com/SDT" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Today's show is sponsored by strongDM. Managing your remote team as they work from home? Managing a gazillion SSH keys, database passwords, and Kubernetes certs? Meet strongDM. Manage and audit access to servers, databases, and Kubernetes clusters, no matter where your employees are. With strongDM, easily extend your identity provider to manage infrastructure access. Automate onboarding, offboarding, and moving people within roles. Grant temporary access that automatically expires to on-call teams. Admins get full auditability into anything anyone does: when they connect, what queries they run, what commands are typed. It's full visibility into everything. For SSH, RDP, and Kubernetes, that means video replays. For databases, it's a single unified query log across all database management systems. strongDM is used by companies like Hearst, Peloton, Betterment, Greenhouse, and SoFi to manage access. It's more control and less hassle. strongDM. Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at strongdm.com/SDT </a></li><li><a href="http://mng.bz/6A9y" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">live@Manning conference</a>: <a href="http://mng.bz/6A9y" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Let's talk about #Rust! Sep 15, at the live@Manning conference; in one Rust-full day go from ways to learn it, to where and how to use it; from game-dev to aerospace and beyond, right from the pincers of expert Rustaceans. Finding Rustaceans weird but intriguing? Secretly wanting to become one? Tune-in, Sep 15, to the live@Manning #Rust conference to find your #Rustlang pincers! Striving to build reliable and efficient software, but finding your language of choice lacking in some key departments? Find the solution with Ferris the crab and the Rustacean tribe. When? Sep 15, at the live@Manning Rust conference!</a></li><li><a href="https://www.virtualgenius.com/events" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Virtual Genius</a>: <a href="https://www.virtualgenius.com/events" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Collaboration between different disciplines in your organization can be difficult, and finding clarity and alignment on both the right problem to solve and the right solution design is even more so. We each approach improvement from our own (limited) perspective, without taking into account the whole story. How is that effective? Paul Rayner's EventStorming Facilitation Virtual Workshop is a multi-day online event that promotes collaboration between different disciplines in order to solve business problems in the most effective way. This virtual workshop with Paul consists of 4 sessions on Sep 28-Oct 1 from 9am-Noon (CDT) each day. To register and get 20% off your ticket, visit virtualgenious.com/events and use the code VGGTC. In this highly hands-on and interactive virtual workshop you'll learn advanced EventStorming facilitation skills spanning from large scale business discovery to collaborative solution design at the team level. Once again to get 20% off your ticket, visit virtualgenious.com/events and use the code VGGTC.</a> Promo Code: VGGTC</li></ul><a href="https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">Support Greater Than Code</a>

198: Learning From Failure with Ravs Kaur

About RavsRavs Kaur, Chief Technology Officer, is responsible for leading Product and Engineering at Uplevel. Prior to Uplevel, she spent a decade in the Developer Division at Microsoft building tools to make the every-day lives of developers easier. Following her time at Microsoft, she was at Tableau and led the core Visual Analytics teams to help people discover and share their insights through data. She brings together her empathy of developers, passion for data, and experience with engineering leadership challenges in her current role at Uplevel to build the product she always wanted for her own teams. Ravs lives in the Seattle area with her husband and two kids who share her aspirations of becoming a pianist some day. They are usually found planning last minute travels and love experiencing different cultures.Today We Talked About: 	Ravs career 	Leadership 	How data and analytics can help employee engagement 	Walking One-on-one 	Time Management 	Time Tracking 	Deep Work Behavior 	Follow the leader behavior 	Change during COVID-19Connect with Ravs 	LinkedIn 	UplevelSpecial Thanks to Private Internet AccessI’ve been a customer of Private Internet Access for 3 years now and I love this service.  I was at a security conference a few years ago and I connected to the hotel wifi.  Immediately my endpoint protection software began to alert me of hacking attempts.  I launched my VPN from Private Internet Access and all of the attempts were stopped. My data and internet connection was secure.  Another great use of the VPN service is connect from different geo locations, which is very helpful when testing DNS and CDN caching. To get a your VPN account starting at $3.33 per month, please visit https://ageekleader.com/vpnI hope you enjoyed this show, please head over to Apple Podcast and subscribe and leave me a rating and review, even 1 sentence will help spread the word.  Thanks again!

About Ravs Ravs Kaur, Chief Technology Officer, is responsible for leading Product and Engineering at Uplevel. Prior to Uplevel, she spent a decade in the Developer Division at Microsoft building tools to make the every-day lives of developers easier. Following her time at Microsoft, she was at Tableau and led the core Visual Analytics teams to help people discover and share their insights through data. She brings together her empathy of developers, passion for data, and experience with engineering leadership challenges in her current role at Uplevel to build the product she always wanted for her own teams. Ravs lives in the Seattle area with her husband and two kids who share her aspirations of becoming a pianist some day. They are usually found planning last minute travels and love experiencing different cultures. Today We Talked About: 	Ravs career 	Leadership 	How data and analytics can help employee engagement 	Walking One-on-one 	Time Management 	Time Tracking 	Deep Work Behavior 	Follow the leader behavior 	Change during COVID-19 Connect with Ravs 	LinkedIn 	Uplevel Special Thanks to Private Internet Access I’ve been a customer of Private Internet Access for 3 years now and I love this service.  I was at a security conference a few years ago and I connected to the hotel wifi.  Immediately my endpoint protection software began to alert me of hacking attempts.  I launched my VPN from Private Internet Access and all of the attempts were stopped. My data and internet connection was secure.  Another great use of the VPN service is connect from different geo locations, which is very helpful when testing DNS and CDN caching. To get a your VPN account starting at $3.33 per month, please visit <a href="https://ageekleader.com/vpn" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://ageekleader.com/vpn</a> I hope you enjoyed this show, please head over to Apple Podcast and subscribe and leave me a rating and review, even 1 sentence will help spread the word.  Thanks again!