Francis Lacoste enters the podcast to speak about how he fuels growth for VPs of Engineering as a coach. Drawing from decades of startup experience at Heroku and Salesforce, Francis puts into practice operational principles that help teams scale past 20 employees. 

 He coach technical executives to become leaders who nurture amazing engineering cultures. He help CTOs transition from “building the product&quot; into “building the org that builds the product”. I support them in growing their team building and relational skills. -Career Before coaching, he spent over twenty-five years in the open-source and cloud developer tools industry. He started as a software engineer working on open-source technology. He transitioned into engineering management at Canonical. My experience with remote environment led him to Heroku where he built the remote engineering culture. 

In 2019, he realized that the engineering management path wasn&#8217;t fulfilling to me, and I move into a role dedicated to supporting the engineering culture within the Salesforce Platform. &#8211; I&#8217;ve worked remotely for 24 years.

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Culture is how you do everything - Francis Lacoste the VPE Coach

Francis Lacoste enters the podcast to speak about how he fuels growth for VPs of Engineering as a coach. Drawing from decades of startup experience at Heroku and Salesforce, Francis puts into practice operational principles that help teams scale past 20 employees.  He coach technical executives to become leaders who nurture amazing engineering cultures. He [&hellip;]

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Culture is how you do everything - Francis Lacoste the VPE Coach