![]() ![]() I’ll help you and we’ll make it work together.” I don’t remember his exact words, but the gist of what Michael said was “Don’t worry. I wanted to say yes but I had a million questions. That experience was in my mind that day while Michael and I were talking. In those two weeks, my network within the company expanded, I got on customer calls for the first time and I got to see what it was like being responsible for more than just my own code. He nominated me to be the engineering contact for tech support while he was out. I got a taste of what it might be like to lead a team when my boss went on vacation for two weeks. My first job was working for Nuance Communications. But it wasn’t the first time I thought about it.ĬloudLock was my second job out of college. We needed to put some team leads in place so we could scale our org and make sure everyone was getting enough attention. ![]() He explained our team was growing fast and it was getting tough for him to have 15+ engineers reporting to him directly. ![]() My boss, our VP of Engineering Michael Zeldich, pulled me aside one day. When I wasn’t working, I was playing bags (aka cornhole) with my friends, lighting people up in Super Smash Bros Melee, or sleeping. I worked so much I never knew what day it was and my bosses had to force me to go home. I had a good job at a tech start-up called CloudLock. I lived in a small apartment in Southie (Boston) with my college roommate “Q”. Three years into my software engineering career and loving it. ![]()
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