A director of engineering explains scaling from dozens of employees to thousands
On today's episode, we chat with Suyog Rao, director of engineering at Elastic Cloud. Suyog began as an open source contributor, then an IC, and eventually a manager and director. He explains that journey, and how our new normal of remote work will drive a new era of transformation in cloud services.
You can find out more about Suyog and his career here. True story, he once worked on tablets way before tablets were a thing.
He's on Twitter here. You can check out Elastic Cloud and it's suite of services here.
Suyog talks a bit about data gravity, a concept you can learn more about here.
If you're a fan of release notes and want to get a sense of what Suyog worked on at Elastic over the years, check out his blog archives here.
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