Monday, 3 February 2014

"Director of technologies propagation"

There is a guy in Yandex who's name is Grigory Bakunov, and he is somewhat legendary person among the Russian developers community, more on him here:
He is a person of broad expertise, so there was a problem with a title of his position after he had turned his career into Yandex. Therefore they have invented the title "Director of technologies propagation". It means that he is responsible for revealing the value of technologies being invented inside Yandex to make them a) usable and available across different teams in Yandex, b) known and popular outside Yandex (through API's, competitions, etc).

What I want to notice here is that such a role is strictly important in science-intense working environments. Each IT-person in the company should be aware of what his/her colleagues are working on, and what technologies does the company already have to be reused. That is an essential part of the overall company's efficiency and the key to elaboration of the company's "school".

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