Scaling Engineering Teams Expert
Karim Fanous is the SVP of Engineering at strongDM. He previously served as VP of Engineering or CTO at Kheiron Medical, Dremio, and Qumulo and has experience scaling engineering teams from 10-100. He blogs about topics like hiring engineers, building engineering processes at startups, and communications between engineering and other functions.
Areas of Expertise
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Upwards interactions between engineering and leadership
Karim can help engineering organizations have productive interactions with senior leadership/company boards. This includes managing expectations, successful collaboration, and developing regular reports.
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Product/engineering interactions
Karim can help companies improve the interface between their product team and their engineering team. He can help organizations develop better communication between the two organizations and improve release management and feature/product prioritization practices.
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Hiring engineering leadership
Karim can help early stage startups hire for engineering leaders and managers. Karim can advise on the recruitment, interviewing and assessment process for CTOs, VPEs and Managers of Engineering.
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Filing software patents
Karim can help companies think about when and why to file for a patent, and guide them through the creation of an internal patents program. He can help companies come up with a prioritization framework to decide which inventions to file patents for, manage costs of filing, and time the filing process.