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Garrett Vargas

How Being a Startup Cofounder helped my Big Tech Transition

Leadership lessons learned on my journey from a startup to a large tech organization

5 min readMay 1, 2023

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Startup Leadership Lessons

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Garrett Vargas

Why Your Startup should Invest in a Strong Technical Foundation

Make your pivots easier by taking some design time upfront

4 min readFeb 15, 2022

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Why Your Startup should Invest in a Strong Technical Foundation

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Garrett Vargas

The most important skill for success working at a startup

A love of continuous learning will help you thrive

3 min readAug 27, 2020

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The most important skill for success working at a startup

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Garrett Vargas

Build simple solutions to understand customer needs

How we built a custom eventing system to understand customer behavior from the start

3 min readJul 30, 2020

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Build simple solutions to understand customer needs

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Garrett Vargas
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The Startup

Advice From a Developer, Industry Executive, and Startup CTO

Summary from an Ask Me Anything session from a section leader in Stanford’s Code In Place program

6 min readJul 16, 2020

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Advice From a Developer, Industry Executive, and Startup CTO

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The Startup

What you need to know to build a serverless communication system

How our startup designed an event-driven architecture to automate e-mails in a cost effective way

8 min readJun 9, 2020

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What you need to know to build a serverless communication system

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Garrett Vargas

My journey from Corporate Executive to Startup Co-founder

My story of venturing out into a startup

11 min readJan 23, 2020

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My journey from Corporate Executive to Startup Co-founder

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Garrett Vargas

Make a better conversation with Alexa Emotions

Using new SSML tags to add emotion to responses

3 min readDec 26, 2019

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Make a better conversation with Alexa Emotions

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Garrett Vargas

Cómo acceder a los perfiles de voz en tu skill de Alexa

Aprende a distinguir a varias personas en un solo dispositivo ECHO

5 min readDec 13, 2019

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Cómo acceder a los perfiles de voz en tu skill de Alexa

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Garrett Vargas
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Better Programming

Teach What You Know to Learn It Better

What I learned by leading an Alexa-development workshop

3 min readDec 4, 2019

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Teach What You Know to Learn It Better

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Garrett Vargas

Garrett Vargas

Co-founder and CTO at LegUp | Former CTO at CarRentals.com (Expedia) | Latino father of 2 | Lifelong learner | Leader of global tech teams and active coder

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