Product-minded engineering executive for ambitious software organizations.
Apple, Electronic Arts, SaaS scaleups, analytics, and applied AI.

Notes on engineering leadership, teams, technology, and earlier research

Writing, Talks, and Publications

I write on LinkedIn and Medium about engineering leadership, team culture, software quality, applied AI, and the stories behind my technical projects.

Medium LinkedIn Visier Engineering
Speaking at SFU
Essaysleadership, culture, coaching, standards, and metrics
Talksengineering management, effective teams, and AI systems
Researchmedical imaging, ITK tooling, and earlier publications

Selected Essays

From DOS Binaries to HD Game Animations: Recovering Jungle War with AI Books on a bookshelf of a software manager (Part 1: Coaching) Books on a bookshelf of a software manager (Part 2: Organization) Defining culture: leading by example What motivates software engineers? High standards vs toxic environment Peacetime vs Wartime Ego - Books on a bookshelf of a software manager Product Management for Software Developers 3 Pitfalls to watch out for when creating your own metrics Pull Request, Vincent Chu Why you should consider joining a small or medium sized company as a senior software developer Should you become an engineering manager in 2022?

Public Speaking

I also enjoy public speaking, often on leadership and current technology such as AI.

Streaming ETL with LLMs and Building an Effective Team Should You Become An Engineering Manager?
Speaking at Visier

Publications

Earlier in my career, I contributed to research work in medical image analysis and related tooling.

Deformation analysis of Hoffa's fat pad from CT images of knee flexion and extension

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Ghassan Hamarneh and Vincent Chu, Simon Fraser Univ. (Canada)

Marcelo Bordalo-Rodrigues, Univ. of Sao Paulo (Brazil)

Mark Schweitzer, New York Univ. School of Medicine (USA)

Proceedings of SPIE, Volume 5746, Medical Imaging 2005: Physiology, Function, and Structure from Medical Images, Amir A. Amini, Armando Manduca, Editors, April 2005, pp. 527-534

MATLAB-ITK interface for medical image filtering, segmentation, and registration

Accepted by SPIE 2006; see MATITK software download

Vincent Chu and Ghassan Hamarneh, Simon Fraser Univ. (Canada)