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Kathleen Vignos - How Companies Evolve By Building Platforms
In this keynote, Kathleen Vignos, VP of Software Engineering at Capital One, discusses how companies can evolve by building and utilizing platforms. Kathleen shares insights into the differences between platform owners and platform tenants, and the challenges they face in balancing priorities. She explains how platforms help solve common problems, reduce duplication, and create scalable solutions. The keynote also covers key strategies for successful platform implementation, including establishing platform standards, contribution models, and effective prioritization and funding models. Kathleen emphasizes the importance of collaboration between platform owners and tenants to drive growth,...
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Mohsin Hussain - Tech Debt: Leverage for velocity acceleration
Просмотров 1022 месяца назад
In this keynote, Mohsin Hussain, CTO & EVP Engineering at LiveRamp, discusses the topic of technical debt and its potential as a leverage point for accelerating development velocity. He outlines a structured approach to defining and managing technical debt by dividing systems into components, creating rubrics for assessing debt, and aligning teams around measurable goals. Mohsin emphasizes the ...
Justin Kitagawa - How does Twilio run 99.999% systems?
Просмотров 1162 месяца назад
In this keynote, Justin Kitagawa, VP of Engineering of Product Platform at Twilio, explores the operational mindset required to run high-availability systems with 99.999% uptime. Justin introduces key concepts like "Tier 0 services" and emphasizes the importance of redundancy, small incremental deployments, and reducing blast radius to ensure reliability. He presents a framework for assuming fa...
Maria Zhang - Budgeting: Your (Unexpected) Opportunity To Be a Hero
Просмотров 1592 месяца назад
In this keynote, Maria Zhang, CEO of Proactive AI Lab and former VP at Google and Meta, shares her strategic approach to engineering budgets. Maria introduces a three-step framework-Align, Allocate, and Amplify-designed to help engineering leaders maximize their impact through effective budgeting. She emphasizes the importance of aligning budgets with company goals, managing dollars rather than...
Kinshuk Mishra - How to invest and divest in bets
Просмотров 2382 месяца назад
In this keynote, CTO of Cedar, Kinshuk Mishra, explores how to strategically invest and divest in high-risk projects, or 'bets,' within a rapidly evolving business environment. Kinshuk presents a practical framework for planning under uncertainty, nurturing bets to fruition, and making critical pivot or persevere decisions. He shares insights on Cedar's approach to annual planning, managing a p...
Celebrating the Plato Community + Community Awards - Opening Keynote Elevate Day 2
Просмотров 6910 месяцев назад
This keynote starts by presenting the past year's updates at Plato, the implementation of new features and how Plato has propelled growth in the community. It then moves into community awards, celebrating top contributors with the following awards: - Highest mentor ratings - Longest mentee - mentor relationship - Special Mention - Circles Pioneers - Most engaged Mentee - Most Impactful Mentor T...
05 how we do developer productivity panel
Просмотров 18410 месяцев назад
Lila Brooks (EM at MongoDB), Tanvi Shah (Director of Engineering at Legion Technologies) and Rebecca Yang (VPE at Clearbit) discuss the complexities of developer productivity and their strategies to optimize it in this panel hosted by Iba Massood, CEO of Tara AI. They discuss the use of metrics and tools like Tara AI and explore their relevance to business outcomes and team dynamics. Panelists ...
How I became a VP of Engineering - Tamar Bercovici, VPE at Box
Просмотров 72910 месяцев назад
In this fireside chat, Tamar Bercovici, VP of Engineering at Box, shares her career journey from starting as a software engineer to becoming a VP, highlighting her learnings and advice. She talks about the importance of managing scope, seeking impactful opportunities, and focusing on team narratives over individual roles. Tamar also recommends insightful books for aspiring leaders and shares he...
How we use AI to deliver Telehealth at Transcarent - Praful Kaul, CTO at Transcarent
Просмотров 13410 месяцев назад
In this keynote, Praful Kaul, Transcurrent's CTO discusses how AI is leveraged in telehealth to improve patient care. He covers the flow of telehealth visits involving an AI bot, the effectiveness of the bot in diagnosing conditions, and the operational challenges. He also shares insights on tackling data privacy and regulations in healthcare, while highlighting the future scope to enhance pati...
How to evaluate team effectiveness with a data first approach - Bhavini Soneji
Просмотров 33310 месяцев назад
In this keynote, Bhavini Soneji, ex-VP Engineering at Cruise, Headspace shares her experiences and insights on utilizing a data-driven methodology to boost team effectiveness. She examines the important role that data plays in assessing a team's performance, from its strategic impact, and operational procedures, to team dynamics. Bhavini provides real life examples from her experiences at Micro...
How a Niche Focus Catapulted Me from Engineering Manager to $300k Solopreneur - Marian K
Просмотров 9110 месяцев назад
In this keynote, Marian Kamenistak, ex-VPE @ Mews, shares his personal journey transitioning from a corporate business to running his own solopreneur venture. Throughout the talk, the speaker highlights the challenges, key strategic decisions and lessons learned along the way, while providing valuable insights for those considering a similar transition. This talk was recorded at Elevate 2023, P...
How we turn data teams into better engineers at Netflix - Andrea Hairston, EM at Netflix
Просмотров 24210 месяцев назад
In this keynote, Andrea Hairston, Engineering Manager, Data & Insights at Netflix for five years, shares her insights on how her team helps bridge the gap between data teams and engineers. She discusses how her team, consisting of software engineers, provides tooling, frameworks, and consultation to enable data-related roles to focus on delivering insights and analytics. Burbank demonstrates ho...
What I Learned About Coaching in the Back of an Ambulance - Kent Beck
Просмотров 1 тыс.10 месяцев назад
In this insightful kenote, prominent software engineer Kent Beck shares his unique journey from suffering a medical emergency that left him unable to speak, to redefining his coaching technique. Beck discusses the transformation he underwent, moving away from various coaching techniques towards offering a more authentic, sincere, and effective method. He emphasizes the importance of preparing, ...
How we evaluate engineering performance at Gusto - Eddie Kim, CTO at Gusto
Просмотров 33710 месяцев назад
In this keynote, Co-founder and CTO of Gusto, Eddie Kim, shares how his company evaluates the performance of its engineering team through a unique four-axis performance evaluation system. Eddie explains the team evaluation process, the logic behind the performance axes, and how promotions are decided based on this evaluation system. This talk was recorded at Elevate 2023, Plato's flagship engin...
How we increased developer productivity 2x - Dave Burgess VP of Data Engineering at Pinterest
Просмотров 35410 месяцев назад
In this keynote, discover how Pinterest Engineering successfully tackles the challenges of managing large-scale data and increasing the productivity of their team. Explore insights into technical solutions such as GitHub Copilot and large language models (LLM), and learn how principles like data mesh and data stewardship help in organizing and making data more accessible and reliable. Additiona...
How do we build engineering resilience at Carta - Javier Lopez, Sr Director of Engineering at Carta
Просмотров 15010 месяцев назад
How do we build engineering resilience at Carta - Javier Lopez, Sr Director of Engineering at Carta
How are we transforming the org to achieve 99.99% uptime at DigiCert - Wade Choules
Просмотров 15510 месяцев назад
How are we transforming the org to achieve 99.99% uptime at DigiCert - Wade Choules
How we do customer bug management at Clari? - Shravan Sogani, VP Engineering at Clari
Просмотров 6610 месяцев назад
How we do customer bug management at Clari? - Shravan Sogani, VP Engineering at Clari
How we Handle Tech Debt at Kiddom - Allen Cheung, VP of Engineering at Kiddom
Просмотров 21110 месяцев назад
How we Handle Tech Debt at Kiddom - Allen Cheung, VP of Engineering at Kiddom
Building Platforms to Support a Compound Startup at Rippling - Tony Dong, ex VPE at Rippling
Просмотров 26010 месяцев назад
Building Platforms to Support a Compound Startup at Rippling - Tony Dong, ex VPE at Rippling
How we do developer productivity at Slack - Sridhar Ramakrishnan
Просмотров 35110 месяцев назад
How we do developer productivity at Slack - Sridhar Ramakrishnan
How We Are Building External and Internal Communities at Reddit - Chris Slowe, CTO at Reddit
Просмотров 11710 месяцев назад
How We Are Building External and Internal Communities at Reddit - Chris Slowe, CTO at Reddit
How we set a technical direction that lasts(and stuck to it) at Suvoda - Andrew McVeigh
Просмотров 27610 месяцев назад
How we set a technical direction that lasts(and stuck to it) at Suvoda - Andrew McVeigh
How we drive Developer Productivity at Yelp - Kent Wills Director of Engineering at Yelp
Просмотров 52910 месяцев назад
How we drive Developer Productivity at Yelp - Kent Wills Director of Engineering at Yelp
How do we code review at Slack - Roojuta Lalani, Staff Software Engineer at Slack
Просмотров 26510 месяцев назад
How do we code review at Slack - Roojuta Lalani, Staff Software Engineer at Slack
How we built a Product Engineering culture at Great Expectations - Lawrence Bruhmuller
Просмотров 12410 месяцев назад
How we built a Product Engineering culture at Great Expectations - Lawrence Bruhmuller
How did we build an AI/ML Platform at DoorDash from the ground up - Sudhir Tonse
Просмотров 49510 месяцев назад
How did we build an AI/ML Platform at DoorDash from the ground up - Sudhir Tonse
What I learned about teams from building the Jenkins project - Kohsuke Kawaguchi,
Просмотров 8310 месяцев назад
What I learned about teams from building the Jenkins project - Kohsuke Kawaguchi,
How unorthodox rituals helped us "survive" an acquisition at Slido - Marek Suppa
Просмотров 13410 месяцев назад
How unorthodox rituals helped us "survive" an acquisition at Slido - Marek Suppa
How did we create a culture of ownership and accountability at Adobe? - Archana Chaudhary
Просмотров 10710 месяцев назад
How did we create a culture of ownership and accountability at Adobe? - Archana Chaudhary