Using Reflection

Show Notes Topics: Computer Science, EdTech, Failure, Founding, Learning, Managing Engineers, Mentoring, Recruiting, Security, Software Engineering, Startups, Teaching, Team Leadership, Teamwork, Trust Companies: Handy Amplify Wireless Generation Introduction In this episode we are joined by Kulesh Shanmugasundaram,VP of Engineering at Handy and Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Kulesh describes an arc from award-winning Ph.D. security research to founding a company based on that research, and on to technical and then senior engineering leadership positions at Amplify Education and Handy. It has been a journey from computer science, a study of the domain of the machine, to software engineering, a “team sport” and social activity of engineers working to understand and then solve human problems. Kulesh observed this split from the start of his graduate research on the famed ILOVEYOU email worm, an attack that was equal parts technical and social. And he