Eric Fouarge talks with Dave Rael about solving complex problems, getting rewards from work, and scaling both systems and teams
Eric Fouarge is the CTO at Root Level Tech. He was responsible for building and driving the Cloud Enablement cloud practice to scale into a $30mm+ organization focusing on bringing progressive technology and practices into emerging enterprises and startups alike. Eric is responsible for pushing the pace for 200% quarter over quarter growth.
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Eric Fouarge
- - The appeal of complex problems and focusing on problems over technology
- - How Eric got started in software
- - Accidental and Essential Complexity
- - The nature and business of Root Level Technology
- - Making choices about where to deploy
- - Eric's story of failure - losing transactional messages due to a misconfiguration
- - Eric's book recommendation
- - Eric's motivation for spending longs hours working and building teams and staying in the technical while an organizational leader
- - The things that have Eric most excited and his causes of pain and suffering
- - Dealing with explosive growth and scaling teams
- - Eric's top 3 tips for delivering more value
Resources:
Eric's book recommendation:
Eric's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
- Be present - contribute and ask questions
- Read, read, read
- Have a good time with it