Episode #4 - Insights on Career, Mastery and Craftsmanship with Nikhil Prasad (Expertease)

11/29/20 • 42 min

In this episode we continue our conversation with Nikhil Prasad, CTO and co-founder of tavisca, about his personal beliefs on building an impactful & meaningful engineering career, and the mental models to making decisions at the C-level. In the previous episode, Nikhil had spoken about how to build an empowered and high-performing Engineering Culture.

Nikhil Prasad on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikhilprasad/
Show Notes and Related Links at Expertease Website: https://life-lessons.in/

Nikhil Prasad on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikhilprasad/
Show Notes and Related Links at Expertease Website: https://life-lessons.in/

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Episode #3 - Empowered Engineering Culture with Nikhil Prasad (Expertease)

In the third episode of Expertease podcast, I speak to Nikhil Prasad, CTO and co-founder of tavisca, about his realization that companies need to provide a higher purpose to employees and how certain simple ideas can lead to building empowering & high-performing organizations.

Nikhil says: "A fresher on your team, who likely doesn't understand how company economics work, is not going to be motivated by a mission to triple your revenue."

This is a really thought provoking episode that explains how Mastery, Autonomy and Purpose can act as foundational pillars on which an organization can create an empowering engineering culture.

Nikhil Prasad on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikhilprasad/

Show Notes and Related Links at Expertease Website: https://life-lessons.in/

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Episode #5 - From Doctor to Coding Architect with Mushtaq Ahmed (Expertease)

In this episode we have an honest and insightful conversation with a dear friend and colleague Mushtaq Ahmed, Principal Consultant at Thoughtworks Pune. We cover topics ranging from his interests, his journey from studying to be a Doctor, then becoming a BA, then a Developer and now a Senior Technical Leader; and his passion for programming. He is a Scala evangelist. In the later part of the podcast we discuss his work with Thirty Meter Telescope(TMT) and architecture principles for building systems at Astronomical scale.