Taking the leap to change jobs and pivoting from a familiar role can be an exciting, yet daunting experience. It can be especially challenging if you take on a position as the ‘first’ of that role in a company or team. I previously worked as an infrastructure developer, but when I joined Wise at the end of 2019, I was one of the first Technical Product Managers (TPM) in our Platform tribe.
In this post I hope to provide some insight into the role of Technical Product Managers and what we do here at Wise.
What exactly is a Technical…
With the rapid growth of Wise and our platform over the last few years, teams within the Platform tribe have formed and disbanded organically. While this refactoring of teams will continue to evolve over time, we’ve reached a place where we need to become more mature in terms of our offerings to the wider Engineering community — really showcasing what platform has to offer.
Let’s do a brief history of our Platform team at Wise:
- Pre-2018: All our workloads were running in a single region in an on-premise data center.
- 2018: The migration journey to the cloud (AWS) kicked off…
