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Ravs Kaur

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Ravs Kaur

Ravs Kaur, Chief Technology Officer, is responsible for leading Product and Engineering at Uplevel. Prior to Uplevel, she spent a decade in the Developer Division at Microsoft building tools to make the every-day lives of developers easier. Following her time at Microsoft, she was at Tableau and led the core Visual Analytics teams to help people discover and share their insights through data. She brings together her empathy of developers, passion for data, and experience with engineering leadership challenges in her current role at Uplevel to build the product she always wanted for her own teams. Ravs lives in the Seattle area with her husband and two kids who share her aspirations of becoming a pianist someday. They are usually found planning last minute travels and love experiencing different cultures.

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Best Practices to Improve your Engineering Sprints

What is the purpose of sprints? We break work into sprints so we can more easily monitor, estimate and predict what we want to ship and when. Over the years, engineering teams have gotten used to moving quickly from one sprint to the next, but I think it’s important to be more thoughtful in how […]

Feb 18, 2022 Β· 3 min

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How to Build Healthy Engineering Teams

A common challenge today for engineering teams is the increasing complexity of their jobs and figuring out how to make it both productive and enjoyable without burning out. Over the last 10 years, the role of a software engineer has evolved drastically. Software continues to reach unprecedented scale, it is becoming more complex and customer […]

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How to Build a People-First Engineering Team

When we think about successful technology teams, there is a tendency to primarily focus on the technology being created rather than the people who are creating it. While both approaches can lead to successful products, a technology-first approach is often the default when software engineers become managers without necessarily having the right tools to manage […]

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Managing Remotely: 6 Ways to Support Engineers

Managing remote engineers effectively comes with a host of considerations. Here are six to keep in mind Dear 2020, we’d like our deep work back. Our shift to remote work in 2020 moved the majority of face-to-face interactions into screens. Although initially we assumed this shift was a temporary adjustment, most of us now realize […]

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