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Play / pause 1x 1.5x 2x 0:00 0:00 0:00 volume Bootstrapping Inclusion with Jason Wong Jason Wong is a proven engineering leader, diversity & inclusion consultant, and doughnut enthusiast. With almost two decades of experience in building and scaling web applications, he has worked in a range of industries from academia to online media and […]
Play / pause 1x 1.5x 2x 0:00 0:00 0:00 volume How Culture Can Help Your Teams Scale with Eric Elliott Eric Elliott is a distributed systems expert, and author of the books “Programming JavaScript Applications” and “Composing Software”. He builds and advises development teams for crypto projects, and has contributed to software experiences for Adobe […]
Play / pause 1x 1.5x 2x 0:00 0:00 0:00 volume Running Remote Teams with Liam Martin Liam is the co-founder and CMO of TimeDoctor.com, Running Remote Conference and Staff.com. After graduating with a masters in Sociology from McGill University, Liam opened a small tutoring company which grew to over 100 employees, and looked to solve […]
Play / pause 1x 1.5x 2x 0:00 0:00 0:00 volume Purpose, Motivation and Empathy with John Rouda John Rouda is an IT Leader and Computer Science Professor. Currently, he is an IT Director and he teaches as an adjunct professor at both York Technical College and Winthrop University. John has spoken at numerous conferences and […]
Play / pause 1x 1.5x 2x 0:00 0:00 0:00 volume The Importance of Relationships with Saurabh Daftary Saurabh is currently an Engineering Manager at Twilio. He joined Twilio about 4 years back as a senior engineer. He then moved into a tech lead position and then transitioned into management about 1.5 years ago. Since then, […]
Play / pause 1x 1.5x 2x 0:00 0:00 0:00 volume The Importance of Training Junior Developers with Michelle Brenner Michelle is a Senior Backend Engineer at ChowNow, helping local restaurants grow their business by strengthening relationships with their customers. She has previously served as both an engineer and a manager for the last  7+ years […]
As a new manager there will be difficult conversations in all directions where you’ll deliver and receive feedback to and from your manager and direct reports. We have varying degrees of experience on this panel and we’ll discuss the things that are always going to be hard and what gets easier with time. We’ll also […]
Play / pause 1x 1.5x 2x 0:00 0:00 0:00 volume Tips for Scaling Engineering Teams with Darragh Curran Darragh is currently the VP of Engineering at Intercom. (One of my favorite companies). He joined Intercom in early 2012 as a product engineer and Intercom’s second outside hire. Fast forward to today, and he is Intercom’s […]
Play / pause 1x 1.5x 2x 0:00 0:00 0:00 volume Engineering Managing and Leadership with Camille Fournier Camille Fournier is the head of Platform Engineering at Two Sigma, a financial company in New York City. Prior to joining Two Sigma she was the Chief Technology Officer of Rent the Runway, a transformative brand that offers unprecedented access […]
Play / pause 1x 1.5x 2x 0:00 0:00 0:00 volume Proper Expectation Setting and Mindful Communication with Lara Hogan Lara Callender Hogan is an engineering leader, coach, and consultant at Wherewithall. She is also the author of Designing for Performance (O’Reilly, 2014), Building a Device Lab (Five Simple Steps, 2015), and Demystifying Public Speaking (A Book Apart, 2016). Lara champions engineering management […]