Hacktiv8 graduation ceremony's keynote speech

Theme was "Humble beginning". I talked about self organization for
dev-team building

Transcript

1. PT. VIPPLAZA CTO Shogo Ochiai
 Feb 2018 @Hacktiv8 Keynote speech for graduation ceremony
2. How do you answer when you’re asked “What is the most important thing as an engineer?”
3. Philosophy I answer
4. Why?
5. Because decision making what you bet on by using your tech-skill is quiet important in real world
6. I was not talented, and late starter
7. But I am here, now.
8. My beginning was like
9. I knew programming when I was elementary school student Just tried “marquee” tag *lost technology, obsoleted
10. I learnt “fortran”, “C” and “PHP” in university and not good score
11. I started learning programming when I was 22 years old - Before that, I was an sales newbie without result - I got a chance to have programming job - I leart Android app and made calculator UI - I got "free" Ruby on Rails job for two month - I got small salary Ruby on Rails job and continued 1yr
12. I joined a cloud PaaS/BaaS startup name: milkcocoa - Storage for frontend/IoT engineer - Just one click, make infra, put one JS code to use it - It was 2014 or something - Parse.io was aquired by Facebook and shutdown - Firebase was aquired by Google - How about milkcocoa? - Aquired by Uhuru (Large software house in Japan) - 1/10 price compare to firebase/parse - I felt “the market” existence
13. I joined venture-capital-like company - Quantitation of startup - Rapid prototyping as an investment
14. Did some freelance job It was good income, but little bit boring Cross Border EC Adtech C2C
15. Now, who am I
16. CTO of VIPPLAZA - 15+ tech members - 250+ members - 31+ microservices
17. Machine learning director
 
 - Midtrans integrated scoring system - Recursive evaluator upgrade - Mass data processing infrastructure
18. Blockchain guru 
 - Translator of Plasma whitepaper - Japanese top-level Zilliqa evangelist - Anti-BitcoinCash opinion maker
19. What is needed for "beginning"?
20. Philosophy is 
 - Why 5 - Can you answer “What is good hacker”?
21. How to learn faster, How to find critical path of everything, How to make yourself genius. Philosophy gives us…
22. Apply it for engineering Static Modeling - Structure Dynamic Modeling - Self organization
23. “self organization” traffic jam consciousness economy teamwork SNS
24. Ability to see the “Invisible power”
25. Why engineers need it?
26. Lesson from VIPPLAZA team building I didn't want to do micro-management - Define everything on management layer - Direct what should you do Scalability for team expansion - Bottom up culture was really needed - Not task-contracted but mission-contracted - Opensource-like development way - decouple everything and make public
27. What I learned No one is native-genius involve me, just build good “acceptance signal” Pokoknya “lingkungan”
28. Lesson from C2C application development I made an app: Meal sharing app 
 KeyPoint was => Advertisement Modeling - Lean Canvas - Virtuous Cycle 
 Insight - Well balanced user proportion - CAC < LTV/3 - Just do big Ad campaign
29. Success in Indonesia - GOJEK - Tokopedia / Shopee - Surabayan "Masaku"
30. Failure in Japan No Salary gap
 - C2C app is not a attractive source of jobs - High inheritance tax / Gift tax => Flat society 
 Tight regulation - Food safety law was quiet strict 
 No strong pain from immature infra - Convenience store is ultimate solution
31. The value of engineering is leveraged by social relation
32. Conclusion
33. Don’t loose your hacker mind But never consumed by it
34. Start from “Make thing people wants.” Go to “Established position” Back to “Make thing people wants.”
35. Autonomous Organization Engineer I name it
36. Enjoy this world most difficult trade-off and make this world better place :)