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Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Deepanshu Madan.

\u201cDeepanshu is a full-stack software engineer, Product, and Business lead. He has recently co-founded ProcessLabs.ai, to help technology leaders optimize their engineering processes and ship high-quality software, faster.

Deepanshu has a Bachelors\u2019s and Master\u2019s in Computer science and has worked across a variety of technology development roles. He started his career as a Software engineer in Test, moved on to become a Senior Software engineer and led Android teams at companies like Expedia and OpenTable.

Most recently, he was a Product Manager on the Android team at Google, where he led multiple product areas for app development tools. Before this role, Deepanshu was a Product Strategy and Commercialization lead on the AdMob team, where he led product and business strategy for Google\u2019s Mobile Ads product.\u201d

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Quotes

\u201cMost of the stuff I learned in the classroom isn\u2019t really helping my career. But one thing I learned in college is how to learn.\u201c

\u201cI started looking up product manager roles just for fun. Funny enough I found all my jobs by just messaging people on LinkedIn.\u201d

\u201cFor a product manager role, understand what your users want, execute, and get it out there.\u201d

\u201cIt may look easy how I got the opportunity at Google. But I actually messaged hundreds of people on LinkedIn; hundreds of people even internally at Google too.\u201d

\u201cAs a product manager, I had meetings all day and I basically never got time to work. You have to prioritize really well and you have to find out what\u2019s really important at this second.\u201d

\u201cA key part of Process Labs is connecting engineering function to business value.\u201d

\u2014Deepanshu Madan

Key Milestones

1. What was Deepanshu\u2019s career mindset in the early years of his career and how has it evolved?
2. How to send LinkedIn messages to get any tech job?
3. How much of Deepanshu\u2019s early career was focused on mobile development.\xa0 What attracted you to that space?
4. Deepanshu left development to join Google to work as a product manager. What influenced him making that kind of switch?
5. How has being a product manager changed the view of development?
6. Deepanshu is the co-founder of Process Labs. What does the company do? What was the inspiration to start it?
7. How to send LinkedIn messages to get any tech job?
8. How does Deepanshu approach hiring?

Additional Resources

Cornelia\u2019s book \u2018Cloud Native Patterns\u2019 \u2013 https://www.manning.com/books/cloud-native-patterns

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