S1 - Episode #4: Clemens Peters - Technical Team Lead, Honest Food
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About Clemens:
Clemens Peters is currently a Technical Team Lead at Honest Food, part of the Delivery Hero Group. He has 10 years experience working in successful start-ups, creating products, building teams and helping to innovate.
Synopsis:
During this episode Clemens describes his career and discusses why he joined Honest Food and why he decided to pursue a Masters degree. He talks about several tools he’s successfully used in his team from Heroku to Kubernetes and Datadog. Finally, whether you’re a CTO or an Engineer, he offers his advice on how to choose your next start-up.
Key Takeaways:
Treating everyone you come across in your career well
The importance of bringing in experts to help with specialists areas of your technical architecture
How to successfully deliver a cloud migration
Managing teams remotely and keeping the connected
His experience in moving from a monolithic to micro-service architecture
Making your team and company more collaborative and efficient
Episode Outline:
[00:55] Introduction to Clemens and his career so far
[05:40] Why Clemens joined his first start-up and his first 6-12 months
[08:40] Main learnings in his role as Technical Lead
[11:11} Deciding to pursue a Masters course
[15:00] Improving his analytical skills through further learning
[16:55] Advice to technologists choosing a start-up to join
[22:23] Biggest challenges in the first year in his current role
[24:25] Choosing a cloud services provider - Heroku/ GCP/ AWS/ Azure
[27:00} The power of Kubernetes
[29:10] Successfully managing a cloud migration
[33:30] Potential advantages of moving from a monolithic to micro-service architecture
[37:50] Introduction to Datadog and why Clemens chose to use it
[41:35] Cultivating learning and development in engineering teams
[50:55] Designing an interview process to test for culture fit and find the best people
[53:26] Challenges of working in and managing a remote team
[57:50] Clemen’s role at Honest Food and his role in knowledge sharing, choice of tooling and technology
[01:02:30] The biggest challenges in technology right now
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