Keynote: Scale @Reddit Triple Team Size w/o Losing Control

Location: Grand Ballroom ABC & Simulcast in Bayview AB

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As of 2017, Reddit has 300 million monthly visitors, ranking #4 most visited website in US and #8 in the world. As you can guess, this kind of tremendous traffic takes some serious engineering efforts that have had to scale with the site's growing popularity. Join Nicholas Caldwell, VP of Engineering at Reddit as he discusses his engineering team's approach to agile development as they scaled from 40 to 120 engineers. He will walk you through their use of tools like Jira and Tableau, discuss meeting rhythms, and cover the must-have cultural elements of a successful team that work at every point of scale.

Speaker: Nick Caldwell

VP Engineering @Reddit, Inc.

Nick Caldwell is the VP of Engineering at Reddit where he is responsible for building and operating the 4th most visited site in the US. Prior to joining Reddit, he held various positions in engineering leadership at Microsoft across a 15 year career, including work on natural language processing, enterprise search, machine learning, in-memory databases, and business intelligence. Nick's most significant role at Microsoft was as General Manager for the Power BI team where he rapidly transformed the company's business intelligence suite.

Nick holds a degree in computer science and electrical engineering from MIT, an MBA from U.C. Berkeley Haas, and holds 10 patents related to natural language processing. Nick is an active participant in /dev/color: a non-profit whose mission is to maximize the impact of Black software engineers, and founder of Color Code: a scholarship fund dedicated to future leaders of color in technology fields.

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