Jason Wong is a proven engineering leader, diversity & inclusion consultant, and doughnut enthusiast.
With over two decades of experience in building and scaling web applications, he has worked in a range of industries from academia to online media and e-commerce. He helped establish web development and administrative computing at Columbia College, led development of premium video streaming services at Yahoo! Sports, and spent seven years at Etsy leading their Infrastructure Engineering team.
He currently works at ActBlue as VP of Engineering.
Understanding the role of a CTO
How to define and develop in your role on the technical track.
Hiring the right engineer for your org
Accurately evaluate soft skills and predict whether a candidate is a good fit for your organization
The tools of culture change
In this talk Jason will cover what works and what doesn’t when it comes to culture change, and give you the tools you need to get the best out of your team.
Common traps when hiring your company’s first engineering manager
How to recruit a manager who can lead your team to success
Using deadlines effectively to build happy and creative teams
The benefits of setting the right deadlines
Culture change in a hostile environment
Jason Wong discusses strategies and tactics for seeding cultural change, creating environments for that change to grow, and what are the limits to those changes at LeadDev Together.
Fixing ‘neutral’ hiring policies to stop excluding the best candidates
Assess candidates on potential and not on their past experience.
Designing effective criteria for assessing engineering candidates equitably
Unlock engineering talent through equitable hiring
Finding potential in your interview processes
Hiring engineers is hard. And with over half of C-suite executives saying that the future of their company relies on being able to source engineering talent, making the correct decisions about who to hire has the potential to transform the fortune of your company.
Tools for effective delegation in engineering management
Learning to hand over responsibility
Bootstrapping inclusion in engineering organisations
Diversity and Inclusion are hot topics right now. But, year after year, our industry fails to move the numbers significantly. It seems everyone is talking about it, but how do you actually bring about change?
Your promotion process is leaving underrepresented groups behind
Systemic solutions for systemic problems
Crafting hiring processes that reduce bias and create consistency
It’s not just about what happens in the interview
Perspectives on what a culture of belonging actually looks like
Building a culture that is equitable is an essential part of your job; and an essential part of equitability is belonging.
Crafting a diverse hiring funnel
Ensuring that your hiring pool is inclusive from the outset
