#453 Following Sustainable Passions with Oren Ellenbogen, VP Engineering at Forter
Today we’re talking to Oren Ellenbogen, VP Engineering at Forter, and Builder and Curator of Software Lead Weekly; and we discuss how to build a sustainable career while balancing a family life and pursuing fulfilling side projects, Oren’s framework for only spending his time on things he’d want to do for the next 40 years, and how to approach leading without leveraging authority.
All of this right here, right now, on the ModernCTO Podcast!
Check out Oren's fantastic newsletter, Software Lead Weekly
About Oren Ellenbogen:
Currently serving a great team as the VP Engineering at Forter.
Previously worked at Commerce Sciences (acquired by Taboola), Delver (acquired by Sears), Mercury (acquired by HP), Israeli Air Force and various small startups as freelancer (ages 16 to 18, before joining the army).
Trying to share what I've learned so far...
- Author of Leading Snowflakes, the Engineering Manager Handbook – Practical tools and techniques for programmers who want to lead.
- Writing a blog about engineering, culture, leadership, management & startups.
- Lecturing about "The Leadership Role @ the Agile era" (at Outbrain, Google andILTechTalks).
- Lecturing about "12 Leadership Hacks For Building Great Teams" (at Conduit andILTechTalks).
- Helping out on Quora (e.g. What are good ways of quantifying code quality?, As a manager, how do you handle low morale in your team?, How do you fire someone everybody likes?).
About Software Lead Weekly:
Like many other great ideas, it came up while drinking beers with my good friend Aviel Lazar, exchanging our favorite weekly (techie) newsletters. It suddenly came to me that creating a newsletter focused on software leadership and management, could be of value to like-minded professionals, passionate about such challenges.
It was probably the beer talking, but hey, this is something I'm truly in to and I'm reading 50+ articles every week anyway, so why not pick the very best and send it to my peers? One hour of ruthless, alcohol driven development later, using AppHarbor & MailChimp, and everything was up and running!
My goal? save you precious time by delivering high quality content directly to your inbox, every week.