Episode 221 Colm Doyle 2, Engineering Manager at Personio

Today we’re speaking once again to the wonderful Colm Doyle, who you may remember from his appearance on Fireside early last year. It’s so wonderful to catch up with Colm, as he’s now the Engineering Manager at Personio, and as such has some fresh new perspectives to give us. For those who may not have caught Colm’s last episode, Personio is a HR enterprise platform, and we chat to him about what it’s like to make the transition from an outward facing DevRel role, to a role helping internal engineering teams deliver products smoothly and efficiently. In short, Colm’s job is to help every engineer at Personio be the best engineer they can. Something Colm stresses to us, is that when you don’t give your engineers time to breathe, you rob your customers of value. It’s as simple as that. He’s been fortunate to work for organisations that consistently value engineer time, which as he points out, is one of the most expensive resources a software company has in stock. So how does one become an engineering manager? Well Colm tells us that the key to moving into any role, is to draw attention to something that’s losing money, and show how you can put a stop to it. ‘It’s taking 6 months to integrate new engineers before they get up and running? I can get that down to 3 months.’ Sometimes, that might be all it takes. It was a delight to have Colm back on the podcast, and we know you’re going to love this episode as much as his first! Reach out to Colm here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/colmdoyle/ Check out Personio: https://www.personio.com/about-personio/ Find out more and listen to previous podcasts here: https://www.voxgig.com/podcast Subscribe to our newsletter for weekly updates and information about upcoming meetups: https://voxgig.substack.com/ Join the Dublin DevRel Meetup group here: www.devrelmeetup.com