New York

October 15–17, 2025

Berlin

November 3–4, 2025

Melinda Seckington

Melinda Seckington is a fractional engineering manager, coach and trainer, working with engineering teams and leaders to improve their communication, management and collaboration skills and help them work more effectively.

Melinda Seckington is a fractional engineering manager, coach and trainer, working with engineering teams and leaders to improve their communication, management and collaboration skills and help them work more effectively. She previously was an engineering manager at companies such as the Wikimedia Foundation and FutureLearn, where she focused on creating great internal engineering cultures. She’s an international conference speaker and has spoken at over 50 conferences, covering topics from good management practices to becoming a better speaker.

How to succeed at hiring without really trying

Hiring good people can be hard. Keeping good people can be hard. It’s made easier though if you can set your company apart as a place that people want to work at. But how do you make the community aware that that’s the case?

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Creating goal-setting workshops for managers in your 1:1s

Often when we talk about goals, they’re from the perspective of the individual: how do you come up with goals for yourself? How do you achieve those goals?

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Level Up: Frameworks for developing developers

As video games have become more and more complex, game designers put way more time into creating environments where players are engaged and willing to put the time and effort into learning and mastering these skills.

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