July 2019CIOAPPLICATIONS.COM8IN MY ViewOn Identifying Vendors and Adapting to ChangeAMEESH PALEJA, CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER, OFFERUPIn the light of your experience, what are the trends and challenges you've witnessed happening with respect to the Enterprise Mobility space?As the largest mobile marketplace for local buyers and sellers, OfferUp is primarily focused on the consumer space but a set of common trends that impact everyone are security, privacy, and scalability. Mobile devices are the primary computing devices for people around the world, and our ability to scale our infrastructure in a secure and compliant way, is a topic that's always on my mind.Could you talk about your approach to identifying the right partnership providers from the lot?Transparency and track record are two areas I tend to focus on when evaluating partners. Vendors that claim to do everything well or those who claim that all the features or functionality I'm looking for are "coming soon" seem disingenuous. I respect vendors who are forthcoming enough to say "we don't do that" or "unfortunately, that's not on our near-term roadmap, but we'll take it into consideration." That authenticity becomes a very easy way for them to build trust with me. The second most important aspect is a track record of success. With critical parts of our infrastructure, it's important to know that we aren't the first people exercising the functionality. Could you elaborate on some interesting and impactful project/initiatives that you're currently overseeing?I'm just getting settled into my role at OfferUp but my focus right now is building operational excellence and a strong engineering culture. Making OfferUp a great place to work and grow is critically important to all of our future initiatives, so having a healthy team and environment is of utmost importance.
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