The Weather Company, which oversees such brands as The Weather Channel and weather.com, is constantly tackling big technology problems in order to scale its services, including running one of the largest API platforms on any public-based technology platforms in the world.
In this video interview, Weather Company CIO Bryson Koehler explains the challeges faced when trying to recruit and retain IT talent capable of solving big technology problems that have never been solved before.
Building and retaining great technology teams is a challenge faced by many Enterprisers. Watch the video or read the transcript below to learn more about the challenges Koehler is facing when it comes to finding and keeping great IT talent.
"One of the more complex and challenging pieces of any CIO's job is building a great team, assembling a great team and keeping that great team together and growing them. And keeping them excited over a long period of time. We have various talent pools based upon the type of talent we are looking for.
We are solving big problems. We're solving problems that only a very few technology companies have had to solve in terms of scalability. We are running our API platform at almost 10 billion transactions a day. It's 150 thousand times a second. We are doing that on open source and cloud-based infrastructure as a service. So, I believe it's probably the largest API platform on any public-based technology platform in the world.
These aren't problems that people have solved fifteen times in their career. And we can go find somebody who has that on their resume and say, hey great, do that again. I have to find people that really are excited about technology, solving problems that haven't been solved, up for the challenge of creating and inventing new ways to solve problems and doing that in a fun and team-based approach."
Bryson Koehler is executive vice president and CIO of The Weather Company. He is responsible for setting the strategic vision, financial planning, technical operations, direction and execution of strategic technology initiatives for the company. In the past, Bryson has worked as an operating partner in private equity and as SVP of global revenue and guest technology at InterContinental Hotels Group.
