Eric Müller lives in San Francisco, and explored many different paths before landing in tech. He looked into architecture, photography, but ultimately, he settled into the creativity, building and planning aspects of building software. Outside of tech, he's married with one kid, and a great tradeoff with his wife - he does all the cooking, while she does the cleaning. He still loves photography, and takes pictures regularly with his Olympus OM-1.Eleven years ago, Eric joined his current venture as a consultant, taking on projects and delivering value. He was brought on board 6-7 months later, and started down the path where he would lead the engineering and security arms of your partner in creating digital products.This is Eric's creation story at Presence.SponsorsSpeakeasyQA WolfSnapTradeLinkshttps://presencepg.com/https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericmullersf/Our Sponsors:* Check out Kinsta: https://kinsta.com* Check out Red Hat: https://www.redhat.com* Check out Vanta: https://vanta.com/CODESTORYSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
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We had a deadline. We had overcommitted. There was an expectation that the work was going to be, that we were going to get a release out that day. I'm sitting at my desk. The product manager has his desk next to me. I looked at everyone and said, all right, we're clearly not going to launch today. The product manager raised his eyebrow at me and I said, we're not going to get this done.
So how do we solve this? And we'll launch when we launch. I was going to go to our boss and say, I'm sorry. We did our best, and it's on me, and it is what it is. My willingness to say, look, I screwed up, it's on me, it took the pressure off of them. And suddenly, people are relaxed, identify the source of the problem, and we actually launched.
I'm Eric Mueller, VP of Engineering at CISO at present.
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Eric Mueller lives in San Francisco and explored many different paths before landing in tech. Architecture, photography, but ultimately, he settled into the creativity, building, and planning aspects of creating software. Outside of tech, he's married with one kid and a great trade-off with his wife. He does all the cooking while she does the cleaning.
He still loves photography and takes pictures regularly with his Olympus OM-1. Eleven years ago, Eric joined his current venture as a consultant, taking on projects and delivering value. He was brought on board six to seven months later and started down the path where he would lead the engineering and security arms of your partner in creating digital products.
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