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  • Sunsetting legacy: Navigating the Shop merchant eligibility data pipeline migration

    In this talk, I’ll share the strategies used to disassemble our legacy data pipelines responsible for managing merchant eligibility on the Shop apps. Join me on a journey through our successes, challenges, and invaluable learnings in the meticulous orchestration of terminating our legacy data pipelines.

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  • Letting the Best Ideas Win

    In my talk I will explain that this is generally a pretty bad idea; it won’t surface the best ideas and it doesn’t let more junior engineers develop their skills. Instead, I introduce some steps you can take to make sure that the idea adopted to solve a problem is the best idea available, even if you aren’t the one who came up with it. Perhaps counter-intuitively I will show how this increases your influence in your organisation and sets everyone up for success.

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  • Doing “the most important thing” is a trap.

    This talk is little about why you need to say No to people more, and how things can go wrong when you don’t learn to do it enough. 

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  • Filling the Void: Operating as a Staff Engineer in a Leaderless Scope

    In this talk, we will detail our experiences as Staff Engineers functioning as Tech Leads, Glues and Facilitators in a leaderless role. We’ll discuss the real-world problems we faced, our solutions, and the lessons learned that allowed us to grow as leaders and as an organisation.

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Highlights from our conferences

Measure for Change

Picking metrics is one thing. But the harder decisions lie in what to do with them afterward.

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Drive product gaps as an engineering leader talk by Emily Thomas in LeadDev New York 2024 Conference

Drive product gaps as an engineering leader

Discover practical strategies for engineering leaders to influence product development effectively, even in the absence of strong product management and a clear company vision.

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Smruti Patel

Growth in a downturn

In this talk, Smruti Patel asks, if hyper-growth is marked by spending more to make more, what does building for enduring growth look like?

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Idea to Innovation

Join me as we embark on a journey to dissect the anatomy of innovation, uncover strategies to unlock the full potential of ideas, and transform them into impactful realities. Let’s build a strong culture of innovation, and make sure that it is not just a buzzword but a tangible outcome.

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Slack enterprise key management: Senior to staff lessons

Explore the key lessons and skills Audrei gained during their first Staff+ project, Slack Enterprise Key Management. This talk offers insights for anyone growing in their Staff+ career.

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  • The Original Skunk Works

    Long before Agile and Lean became buzzwords, a scrappy group of aerospace engineers at Lockheed’s Skunk Works were using similar practices to produce some of the most amazing aircraft ever built.

  • Failing smarter and learning faster in engineering

    Software development has been evolving. When I started in the industry, working at companies like Microsoft, we would bet many person-years of development and many millions of dollars into the development of products that would sometimes be hits and sometimes be total duds

  • Documentation in Agile

    We value “working software over comprehensive documentation”. That is, while there is value in documentation, we value working software more.

  • Building and Scaling a Distributed and Inclusive Team

    The current status quo in running and scaling out teams is to have everyone work in the same office or in offices across different locations.

  • Starting, executing, and landing big rewrites

    There’s nothing more frustrating than not being able to deliver new features because of unnecessarily complicated code.

  • How to automate a11y testing

    Are you still testing accessibility by hand? Or worse, have a dedicated person doing so? Stop! Now!

  • How to mentor Junior Engineers

    To get her foot in the door, she had to convince very smart people that she could write software because she can do ballet. It took a few tries.

  • Rethinking the Developer Career Path

    Our current methods for measuring a developer’s career progression are broken. At best, we count the number of days someone’s been paid to write code and massage that into a title. As a result, there’s no consensus as to what a given title means, leading to frustration for everyone.

  • How tech hiring fails us all

    From the outrageous to the sad, hiring experiences in tech can be really … bad! For the hiree and the hirer! From both sides of the table, Crystal has seen illegal and immoral behaviour — choices that damage companies as much as they damage individuals. Let’s do better. Please. We can improve this.

  • The Inclusive Leader: Tips for Developing Diverse Engineering Teams

    Managing people is hard. Managing people who aren’t like you is harder. As we push to build more diverse teams, how do we ensure everyone can succeed equally?

  • Centralising the Right Things

    uSwitch has a strong dev ops culture, we’ve learnt over time what should be handled by teams and what the organisation should provide.

  • What engineering leaders need to know about blockchain

    If you’ve not been hiding under a rock, you must have heard about Blockchain. This session will throw some light on why it matters to businesses and techies, and how is it chaining the world one block at a time.

  • Lending privilege as engineering leaders

    Diversity and inclusion have become hot topics in technology, but you may not know how you can make a difference. This talk will help you understand that, no matter your background, you have privilege and can lend it to marginalized groups in tech.

  • First steps for tech leads

    You’ve been programming for a while now. You know your way around the code, and you’re becoming a go-to for technical advice. And it looks like someone else noticed, because you’re the technical lead on your next project.

  • Leading radical change as an engineering manager

    February 2017 will mark a year since I started in a role aimed at radically changing how Indeed thinks about front-end engineering.

  • The building built on stilts

    In the summer of 1978, structural engineer William LeMessurier got a phone call that terrified him. An undergraduate student claimed that LeMessurier’s acclaimed 59-story Citicorp Center in Manhattan, just completed the year prior, was dangerously unstable under certain wind conditions. The student was right, and it was almost hurricane season.

  • An introduction to polymer

    As a Senior Principal Engineer for Comcast I’ve been doing web development for a long time, and over the course of my career I’ve spent a lot of time keeping up with the evolution of the web platform.

  • Work-life balance as an engineering leader

    In this talk it is shown that some features of work addiction are similar to other addictions, and how workaholism relates to burnout, low job satisfaction, high levels of job strain and health complaints.

  • Engineering retrospectives – Look back, move forward

    Retrospectives are one of the most powerful tools in a team lead’s toolkit.

  • An Swift introduction

    Since its initial release in 2014 and subsequent open-sourcing in 2015 Swift has become one of the most popular programming languages in the world — used everywhere from mobile to Macs to microservices.

  • The challenges and rewards of distributed teams

    Distributed teams offer many benefits for employers and employees alike. Having a distributed team can make recruiting and retention easier, and it can help you build a diverse team.

  • Creating observable microservices

    Think of this talk as a Microservices 201. You know the basic of microservices and their pros and cons, but can you successfully maintain them in production?

  • Finding the right ingredients for the perfect engineering team

    A great team is like a great dish, balanced flavors, tastes, textures and smells combine to create something unique and delicious.

  • Leading through public speaking as an engineering leader

    In our work, we each have moments of saying some prepared words under a spotlight – whether it’s during team standups, giving a presentation to a client, or pitching your promotion to your boss – and yet we all have different fears about those moments.