Summary: <div> <div>Guest:</div> <div> <div><a target="_blank" href=""></a></div> <div><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/">@</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="podcast-episode"> <div class="subtitle"> Alex Balazs talks with Dave Rael about his role at Intuit, diversity, listening, impact, and finding your voice </div> <div class="podcast-summary"> <p>Alex Balazs is Chief Architect for Intuit. He leads business and technical architecture, drives product and engineering excellence, and stewards technology talent across Intuit. Intuit products serve over 45 million consumers, self-employed and small businesses in the US and around the world. Alex previously served as chief architect for Intuit's Consumer Group that delivers products like TurboTax and Mint. He also served as chief architect for Intuit’s 100+ million Identity Ecosystem. He is passionate about solving big unmet customer needs through technology and building the next generation of technologists and leaders. He is a leading expert on Intuit's Node.js initiatives and part of a consortium of leading tech companies that are adopting the technology. Alex sits on the executive advisory board for Tech Women at Intuit and serves on the advisory board for the Galisano College of Computing & Information Sciences at the Rochester Institute of Technology. </p> </div> <div class="podcast-chapters"> <h6>Chapters:</h6> <ul> <li><a href="#!"> - Dave introduces the show and Alex Balazs and Alex's history with writing software</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Alex's long tenure with Intuit</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Architecture in a business making acquisitions</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Alex on the architect role</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Alex on leadership</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - How Alex stays in code</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Standards and technical diversity</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Being lit up on writing software and having some distance from writing production code</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Tech Women at Intuit</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - How to be a better listener</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Alex on vulnerability</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Alex's story of failure - Taking too much time to deliver and asking too few questions</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Finding your voice and asking questions - starting small</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Alex's book recommendations</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - The things that have Alex most excited</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Alex's top 3 tips for delivering more value</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Keeping up with Alex</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="podcast-resources"> <h6>Resources:</h6> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.intuit.com/" target="_blank">Intuit</a></li> <li><a href="https://intuitblog.com/technology/" target="_blank">Intuit Technology Blog</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hungarian_mathematicians" target="_blank">Hungarian Mathematicians</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Hungarian_computer_scientists" target="_blank">Hungarian Computer Scientists</a></li> <li><a href="http://developeronfire.com/podcast/episode-279-fred-george-making-sure-the-right-decisions-are-made" target="_blank">Fred George on Developer On Fire</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/intuits-cfo-wants-to-follow-you-home-and-watch-you-work-2015-12" target="_blank">Intuit's Follow Me Home Program</a></li> <li><a href="CES%20Reflections" target="_blank">CES Reflections - Alex on the Intuit Technology Blog</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="podcast-book-recommendation"> <h6>Alex's book recommendation:</h6> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1250141222/?tag=devonfir-20" target="_blank">Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations (Version 2.0, With a New Afterword) - Thomas L. Friedman</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0804137382/?tag=devonfir-20" target="_blank">Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less - Greg McKeown</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="podcast-tips"> <h6>Alex's top 3 tips for delivering more value:</h6> <ol> <li>Deliver more by saying no - deliver a smaller set of things, but do them well</li> <li>Have a broad vision, but execute narrowly</li> <li>Seek diversity</li> </ol> </div> </div>
