Decode the Career Path to VP of Engineering with Wade Chambers, CTO & SVP Engineering @ Grand Rounds

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Uploaded: 2019-04-01

Posted Apr 01, 2019 | Views 2K

# Career

# Leadership

# Management

speaker

Wade Chambers

Engineering @ Amplitude

Wade Chambers will be leading Engineering at Amplitude. Amplitude is the leading digital analytics platform that helps companies unlock the power of their products. Wade has over 25 years of engineering leadership experience, both advising companies and being hands-on in key leadership positions at companies such as Included Health, Twitter, TellApart, Proofpoint, Yahoo, and Opsware. He is a deep technical expert with a proven track record of scaling teams, leaders, market-defining technology innovations, and business growth.

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SUMMARY

Wade Chambers, CTO & SVP of Engineering @ Grand Rounds links the principles, competencies, and the focus areas that help grow individual contributors into engineering managers, into amazing VPs of Engineering.

The Fast Track to VP of Engineering (VPE) - In Wade's experience, engineers like to understand cause and effect so they can focus on being efficient. As most engineering managers were engineers, the need for a causal impact persists in the new role. In his 25+ of years of experience, including being a VP of Engineering at both public and private companies, he's invested a lot of time to link principles, competencies, and the focus areas that help grow ICs into EMs into amazing VPEs. Wade presents some of these lessons learned the hard way in the hope they can accelerate your career and help you avoid the 'trial and error' approach that is so prevalent in today's market.

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