Datta Vellal

2020

Designed and ran the bar-raiser hiring program, with global inductions for Brazil, North America and Europe, and led quality checks at the developer's desk, with three teams live on its quality gates. As work went remote I kept the connect program going online, with about 2,125 participants across 12 cities, and co-authored the company CI/CD reference architecture. Four goals rated Exceeds, 'top score and top results'.

  • ~2,125connect participants
  • 12cities
  • 7bar-raiser cohorts
  • 3teams on quality gates
  • 4goals Exceeds

What mattered most

  1. 01

    Top score and top results in 2020, with four goals Exceeds

    My 2020 review, for the year I ran the bar-raiser program, the remote connect program and quality at desk, rated four goals Exceeds. My manager called it the top score and top results of the year.

  2. 02

    Designed and ran the company's bar-raiser hiring program

    I designed and ran the bar-raiser program, which trains experienced interviewers to sit on panels outside their own team and hold one hiring bar. With talent acquisition in each region I ran global inductions for Brazil, North America and Europe, and seven cohorts followed.

  3. 03

    Kept outreach going remotely, with about 2,125 participants in seven months

    When work went remote in 2020, I moved the connect program online and kept measuring it. Between February and August the sessions reached about 2,125 participants across 12 cities and more than 40 departments.

  4. 04

    Co-authored one CI/CD reference architecture for the company

    I co-authored the company CI/CD reference architecture whitepaper and its reference pipelines, and worked the architecture community's review comments into later versions so businesses had one baseline to adopt.

  5. 05

    Led the move of quality checks to the developer's desk

    I led a program that put quality checks into developers' everyday builds, and paired with teams to make it stick. Three teams went live on its quality gates and two added mutation testing to their pipelines.

“I wished to thank you for all that you have been doing regarding the bar-raiser project, all the effort that you are putting into this. There is no way we could make this work without you.”

Talent acquisition consultant, AmsterdamPhilips, 11 September 2020Read the capsule

By month

Also in 2020

  1. 1 October 2020Helped the bootcamp lead structure the campus engineering bootcampProgram
  2. September 2020Trained 15+ interviewers in Brazil for the global hiring rolloutHiring
  3. July 2020Judged the finals of a business unit's internal hackathonProgram
  4. 26 June 2020Manager recognition 'Eager to improve and inspire' for building the bar-raiser initiativeRecognition
  5. 15 May 2020Taught the quality-at-desk approach at the campus-wide Virtual Learning SummitTalk
  6. 11 March 2020Ran monthly business progress dialogues with a software team in ChinaProgram
  7. 3 January 2020Recognized for running the 2019 code-craft assessmentsRecognition
  8. 2020Adapted and ran the 'Crack the Code' coding challenge for the team in BrazilProgram
  9. 2020Leadership development center and 360 review: above the company average on every competencyReview
  10. 2020Reverse-mentored senior leaders on software practices in the company reverse mentoring programProgram