Namshi runs one of the most successful businesses across the Rocket portfolio with ~10 engineers: even though we surely need to beef the team up, we have never considered scaling so much as we want to keep our product roadmap and development cycle lean, simple and free of waste.

1. ATECHTEAM
of~tenAlexnadalin-namshi.com

2. Talentisscarce

3. Pathto
profitability

4. kiss

5. Abriefhistory...

6. 2012
firefighting

7. 2013
APIs

8. 2014
frontends

9. 2015
Internaltech

10. 2016
Partyhard

11. #1
MANAGEMENT

12. Tech-savvymanagement

13. Easytocommunicatewith

14. Hardtolieto

15. rule #1
Upper management matters more
than you think

16. rule #1
Gripe goes upwards,
blame goes downwards

17. rule #1
Work on creating transparent
relationships and awareness

18. #2
workflow

19. Nodeadlines

20. Bleedunix

21. Shortcutsare
promoted

22. Withinour
long-termplan

23. rule #2
Hope for the best,
prepare for the worst,
Be pragmatic

24. #3
culture

25. Quality
before
quantity

26. Activities

27. Activities
talks
katas
Knowledgesharing
Trivia

28. Osprojects

29. R&D

30. R&Dchatops
grpc
Reactnative
Make
sysadmins
code
iso.JS
Bughunt http/2

31. rule #3
Great culture means great people

32. #4
people

33. no-comfortzone

34. delegate

35. rule #4
Micromanagers kill teams

36. #5
leverage

37. AWSisyour
systeam

38. GoogleDocsis
Yourbackend

39. Akamaiis
yourGULP

40. avoidlock-ins
butbepragmatic

41. yearlycontracts
=
theplague

42. rule #5
It’s not that you suck,
it’s just that they’re better

43. questions?

44. github.com/odino
twitter.com/_odino_
odino.org
VP Technology
github.com/namshi
twitter.com/TechNamshi
tech.namshi.com