Vincent Chu Tinkerer | Leader | Innovator

Technology executive leading product, engineering, and platform strategy.
Experience across Apple, Electronic Arts, and startups.

Writing and Talks

I started writing about the books I read and my thoughts on leadership in 2020. I published them on LinkedIn, and they received thoughtful feedback from fellow technical leaders.

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?

Please also check out my other articles on Medium and on LinkedIn.

Public Speaking

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

Speaking at SFU

Here are some of my recent talks:

Streaming ETL with LLMs and Building an Effective Team

Should You Become An Engineering Manager?

Publications

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

1. Deformation analysis of Hoffa's fat pad from CT images of knee flexion and extension (PDF)

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

2. 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)