Culture
Presentations
Microcultures and Finding Your Place
If you've worked for more than one company in your career, you know that culture can vary from one company to the next. If you move from one team to another team within the same company, you may have observed that different teams within the same company have different cultures. Why is that,...
High Performing Teams Act Like Owners
Managers often ask engineers to “act like owners” or “show great ownership.” What does this even mean? How can you act on something that isn’t well defined? You’re an engineer, after all. Maybe it’s just code for your manager wanting you to work nights...
Past Presentations
The Second Act
In order to be a historic company, you need your culture to evolve.
Building Great Engineer Cultures from 0 to Scale
After building Pinterest from the beginning and rebuilding Reddit's engineering team as CTO, I can safely say building startups is hard. As a founder, engineer, lead, or manager, you not only have to build a great product and secure funding, but also build a great culture. If you don't build a...
Engineering Inclusion
There has been much discussion about improving diversity in the tech industry. While admirable, focusing on diversity without accounting for inclusion can result in temporary gains. In this talk, we will examine the need for inclusive measures as part of building a strong engineering culture and...
Interviews
What are your areas of expertise? What have you been working on?
I've been working in the space of edge computing. A lot of people ask what is edge computing? I like to use the Linux Foundation’s definition from The State of the Edge Report from a couple of years ago. It focuses on the notion of the last mile, that last bit of compute that a telco might give an end-user. That's things... Read Full Interview
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Engineering Engineering Culture With Memes
What’s the focus of your work today?
I'm co-founder and COO of FullStory in Atlanta.
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