August 24, 2023 • 1 minute read • 
Podcast: The Happy Engineer Podcast - Engineering Hard Choices
Pete Hunt shares insights on building and leading a data engineering team and making hard engineering calls.
- Name
- Pete Hunt
- Handle
- @floydophone
In this Podcast episode, Pete Hunt, CEO of Dagster Labs, shares how he discovered the keys to building and leading a data engineering team, and making hard choices like selecting an app’s tech stack.
Some topics explored:
- Job search and interview skills, self-learning and the relevance of an advanced degree.
- Building Instagram using client rendering.
- Building a start-up from scratch and selling it to Twitter.
- Strategic happiness: consistency or variability?
- Professional development for engineers, focusing on results and asking for answers.
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- Name
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- Handle
- @s_ryz
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