Helping Combined Hardware/Software Teams Deliver Great Products
Summary
Hardware is hard, but software isn't easy. Blending the two into a compelling product at startup scale can be agonizing, yet exhilarating and unbeatable when you get it right. In this session, we'll learn from each other how to wrangle combined hardware/software teams made up of wildly different engineering disciplines and work styles - and how the conventional wisdom about culture, collaboration and process has to be reengineered from scratch to help such teams deliver amazing products. Whether you work in robotics, sensors, IoT or consumer devices, you'll find the stories of others who ply this unique type of engineering leadership to be universal and applicable to your own team.
Host
Nick is VP of Engineering at Dusty Robotics, where he runs hardware engineering, software engineering and product management for FieldPrinter, a robot that prints detailed construction layout directly from building models. During his time at Dusty he has built out the hardware, software and product teams and helped them deliver both the second-gen FieldPrinter robot and companion software platform. Prior to Dusty, Nick held VPE roles at Prenav, building an autonomous inspection drone, and thePlatform, a media cloud platform acquired by Comcast.
