Developer on Fire
Developer on Fire
Episode 103 | Viktor Schepik - Leverage in Building Software
Guest:
Viktor Schepik talks with Dave Rael about the joys and pains of building embedded software in the automotive industry, rewards of building platforms, and the importance of family
Viktor Schepik loves to build things, especially software, and he loves his family. He has built embedded, safety-critical software for steering systems in cars at a big german car supplier. After being the leading software architect shaping the platform architecture of those systems he decided to start an agile career with a much smaller company, named softwareinmotion. There he developed enterprise systems with Ruby on Rails and got excited about Agile Development and TDD. Teaching software developers is his passion and he was always looking for the ultimative programming language. On that journey he got caught by F# recently after tinkering with Clojure and many more. He hopes to change others life for the better.
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Viktor Schepik
- - Doing embedded software for automobiles
- - The need to teach other developers in a leadership position
- - Viktor's definition of value
- - Viktor's family
- - The things that "light Viktor up"
- - How Viktor got started in software
- - Viktor's story of failure - lack of market fit for a product
- - Viktor success story - building a maintainable platform that made life better for developers and stood the test of time
- - Viktor's thoughts on the automotive industry, automative technology, pressure, and recent scandal there
- - How Viktor stays current with what he needs to know
- - Viktor's book recommendations
- - The things that have Viktor most excited
- - Viktor's greatest sources of pain
- - The things about which Viktor likes to geek out apart from software
- - Viktor's prediction for the future of software
- - Viktor's top 3 tips for delivering more value
- - Keeping up with Viktor
Resources:
- Viktor on Medium
- How to be an automobile software engineer — Part 1
- How to be an automobile software engineer — Part 2
- How to be an automobile software engineer — Part 3
- Volkswagen emissions scandal
- How To Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie
- Capability Maturity Model
- Dr. Carol Dweck
- Linda Rising on Developer On Fire
- The Story of Kodak
Viktor's book recommendation:
Viktor's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
- Put yourself in someone else's shoes
- Progress by looking at what your customer got from your delivery
- Use leverage to get the most from your efforts
