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How Sin-Mei Tsai, Shippo’s VP of Engineering, Defines Code Quality

Version One Ventures

This time, I am very excited to introduce Sin-Mei Tsai , VP of Engineering at Shippo , a Version One portfolio company. Instead of asking three questions as we did with Bala, we’re going to take a very deep dive into a critical topic: code quality. How do you define code quality? Functional quality.

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

Often times, it seems like people are thinking its synonymous with "that guy who gets paid to sit in the corner and think technical deep thoughts" or "that guy who gets to swoop in a rearrange my project at the last minute on a whim." We lack a consistent and clear definition of the job. Ive tried hard not to live up (or down?)

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Lessons Learned: The hacker's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

As a last disclaimer, please consult the definition of the word hacker if youre not familiar with the controversies surrounding that term.) Its common to find a hacker at the heart of almost any successful technology company. He throws off volumes of code, and it works. Just change it. To a hacker, it looks a lot like heaven.