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Jean Michel Lemieux
CTO, Shopify
Stealing from operating systems to scale your team
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Cathy Polinsky
CTO, Stitch Fix
Moving fast: Balancing innovation and tech investments
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Mike Boufford
CTO, Greenhouse
Hiring insights: then & now
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Kolton Andrus
CEO & Cofounder, Gremlin
How many nines of availability are enough?
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Edith Harbaugh
CEO, LaunchDarkly
Better product prioritization
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Kwame Thomison
Founder, Magnetic
Moving fast and slow: A tale of two cultures
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Lawrence Bruhmuller
CTO, Optimizely
Building experimentation into your software delivery culture
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Sha Ma
VP Engineering, GitHub
Future Proofing - Architecture for Explosive Growth
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Jack Humphrey
VP Engineering, Indeed
Accelerating delivery with metrics-driven insights
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Fred Lee
CTO, Cars.com
Three things I hate about your onboarding
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Abiade Adedoyin
Business Development Manager, AWS
Four ways to reduce your AWS bills
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Adam Zimman
VP Platform, LaunchDarkly
Building a team vs. Building a feature
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Ann Lewis
CTO, MoveOn.org
Rachel Maddow is the new Slashdot Effect
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Chris Richardson
Founder/CEO, Eventuate
Decompose your monolith: when and how to incrementally refactor to microservices
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Charity Majors
CTO, Honeycomb.io
Observability-Driven Development (ODD) is the new TDD
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Colin Bodell
VP Engineering, Shopify Plus
Approaches to reducing your expenses
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Dalia Havens
VP Engineering, Netlify
Using metrics to lead a fully distributed team
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Francois Toubol
CTO, Livly
Reality check: startups and layoffs
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Glyn Roberts
CTO of Digital Solutions, iTechArt
Changing priorities for changing times
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James Smith
Cofounder & CEO, Bugsnag
How to have “The Talk”: Measuring and addressing technical debt
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Blaga Lund
VP of Engineering, Intent
Balanding process and people
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Andrea Goulet
CEO, Corgibytes
From fires to features: a framework for technical debt timing and staffing
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Andrew Montalenti
Founder/CPO, Parsely
Lessons learned from running a fully remote engineering management book club with my team
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Andrew Fong
VP of Infrastructure, Dropbox
How to scale an agile engineering org
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Ale Paredes
VP Engineering, Code Climate
Leveraging engineering metrics to drive alignment
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Claudius Mbemba
CTO, neu
The secret to engineer onboarding excellence
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Christina Zhong
Director of Engineering, Holland & Barrett
Digital transformation into microservices
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Jon Morra
Chief Data Scientist, ZEFR
From zero to data science: Building your first team
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Heidi Helfand
Director of R&D, Excellence, Procore
5 Ways to Get Better at Reteaming when Scaling Your Company
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Jeremy Garcia
Director of Technical Community & Open Source, Datadog
Serverless Adoption & Usage Report
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Katie Womersley
VP Engineering, Buffer
Building & scaling distributed teams
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Matt Holford
Engineering Director, Etsy
What I learned from six years of team structures
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Michael Stahnke
VP Platform, CircleCI
Making a distributed working environment work well
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Rachana Kumar
VP Engineering, Etsy
Leading through Rapid Change and Transformation in Tech
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Randy Shoup
VP Engineering and Chief Architect , eBay
Scaling your architecture over the long term
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Rebecca Parsons
CTO, ThoughtWorks
Assessing and monitoring technical debt
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Rob Zuber
CTO, CircleCI
Microservices: Just Another Tool in the Toolbox
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Rossella Blatt Vital
Director of Data Science, Trunk Club
How to operationalize Machine Learning for success
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Tim Buntel
CPO, CloudZero
Shift costs left
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Wambui Kinya
VP Partner Engineering, Andela
Onboarding that accelerates development and delivery
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Zach Ozer
VP Engineering, Clubhouse
Deploying squads at Clubhouse
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Ran Ribenzaft
CTO/Cofounder, Epsagon
Optimizing engineering efficiency through observability
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Paula Paul
Distinguished Engineer, greyshore
The persistence of memory
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Daniel Bryant
Product Architect, Datawire.io
The past, present and future of cloud native API gateways
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Shannon Hogue Brown
Head of Solutions Engineering, Karat
Engineering the Technical Interview
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Scott Gerlach
Cofounder, StackHawk
Three reasons dvs struggkle with application security
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Ron Lichty
Interim VP Eng, Ron Lichty Consulting
Architect Your Organization for Effectiveness, Productivity and Joy
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Ryan Neu
Founder, Vendr
How to negotiate with SaaS vendors: lessons from a former head of sales
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Rob De Feo
AWS startup advocate, AWS
An introduction to building resilient applications
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Farrah Campbell
Director, Stackery
Empowering careers with serverless
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Nick Rockwell
SVP Engineering, Fastly
The Curious State of Serverless Platforms
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Matthew Fornaciari
CTO & Cofounder, Gremlin
Operational Maturity: Reactive to Proactive
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Kimberly Wiefling
Founding Member, Silicon Valley Alliances
Scrappy Design Thinking - An Appetizer
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Juan Pablo Buritica
Engineering Lead, Stripe
A primer on engineering delivery metrics
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Heidi Williams
Director of Engineering, Grammarly
Setting New Senior Hires up for Success
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Jonathan Lenaghan
Dirctor of Engineering, Datadog
How a DS team can work effectively in large engineering org
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Heidi Waterhouse
Senior Developer Advocate, LaunchDarkly
Go Faster, Be Safer
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Cobus Bernard
Senior Developer Advocate, AWS
How ML is shaping cloud security
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Eleanor Saitta
Founder , Systems Structure
So You've Realized You Need to Get Serious About Security...
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Aaron Bedra
Employee, DRW
The Security Minded CTO
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Cat Miller
VP Engineering, Flatiron Health
Evolving the Hiring Process for Hyper-Growth