Track Overview
Engineering Culture @{{cool_company}}
Building an engineering (and technology) led culture is the hardest and most important challenge faced by entrepreneurs building tech companies. The successful ones are those that have managed to bridge product, technology, and people. Every company (whether actively cultivated or organically developed) has a culture. What differentiates a company that remains successful while it continues to grow is how it manages to hold on to or make the right adjustments to its culture.
The Engineering Culture track showcases speakers that have helped shape the culture of their respective companies. Whether an aspiring leader, a first time manager, or a seasoned entrepreneur, you will benefit from the stories and experiences of the leaders in software.
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Tips For Creating a More Equal Workplace
Institutional bias is death by a thousand papercuts. Unequal work environments today are comprised of a lot of small inequalities that add up to the gender pay gap, the racial hiring gap, and environments that can be unintentionally antagonistic towards non-traditional groups. This talk covers...
Kate Heddleston
Founder/Software Engineer
Enabling Innovation at Uber Speed
Uber has been growing at a breakneck speed both in terms of business as well as in terms of people. Innovation and the speed of innovation is paramount to our success. At the same time, Uber’s mission is defined as “Transportation That Is As Reliable as Running Water”. How does Uber create...
Aurore Kervella
Responsible for Data Quality @Uber Communications
Sudhir Tonse
Engineering Manager @Uber - Marketplace Data & Forecasting
The Holistic Detective Hunt For Great Tech Culture
Seeing the whole and thinking wider than software and development processes is something we find very hard to do in the tech industry. It’s so easy to get distracted by the amazing new languages, the neat gadgets, or the fun of tricks like mob programming. If we start to apply a wider lens,...
Douglas Talbot
Founder at DOSE Dynamics
Evolving the Engineering Culture @Criteo
Criteo, a leader in the fiercely competitive Adtech sector, started in France and now has several hundred engineers distributed across four locations. Thanks to our strong engineering culture fostered by our founders, R&D driven innovation is at the heart of Criteo’s growth. Criteo’s...
Manu Cupcic
Senior Staff Development Lead @Criteo
Delivering Value While Behind Enemy Lines
Delivering software can sometimes feel like a battle against the organisation around you, rather than an exercise in working with it. Looking at how runs can be helpful, but it can also simply make you jealous. Not all of us get to work for one of those companies, nor be empowered to make the...
Matt Barrett
Director and Co-Founder of Adaptive Financial Consulting
Culture Open Space
Speakers from this track
Kate Heddleston
Founder/Software Engineer
Kate Heddleston is an athlete turned software engineer and entrepreneur in San Francisco. She is the founder of a startup called Opsolutely (yes, it’s a pun) that helps engineering teams ship software to service-oriented infrastructure. She writes about diversity and inclusivity on her blog...
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Aurore Kervella
Responsible for Data Quality @Uber Communications
Aurore is a statistician on Uber's Communications Platform. She is responsible for data quality, defining key business metrics related to Communications, and building an intelligent router to ensure that Uber communications with existing rider and driver partners are optimal. Prior to Uber,...
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Sudhir Tonse
Engineering Manager @Uber - Marketplace Data & Forecasting
Sudhir Tonse manages the Realtime Data Intelligence organization at Uber which is responsible for the Marketplace Data Pipeline, Storage and Compute framework as well as Insights and Marketplace Forecasting. Previously Sudhir managed the Cloud Platform Infrastructure team at Netflix and was...
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Douglas Talbot
Founder at DOSE Dynamics
Doug Talbot is a passionate technologist. He has worked in technology forever, from coder to VP. He is most at home leading technology groups and has lead tech in startups, science, banking, government, and retail. He has spent 15 years driving technology improvement through innovation, agility...
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Manu Cupcic
Senior Staff Development Lead @Criteo
Manu is passionate about writing code that scales, which is as much about keeping a consistent codebase and a great development process as it is about distributed systems. He is currently the dev lead of the Criteo Predictive Search Bidding team, optimizing Google adwords campaigns through...
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Matt Barrett
Director and Co-Founder of Adaptive Financial Consulting
Matt Barrett is a director and co-founder of Adaptive Financial Consulting. He is involved with project delivery as a technical architect and engineering lead, as well as consulting strategy and sales. He has recently built a near-shore engineering team in Barcelona to work closely with...
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Track Host
Sudhir Tonse
Engineering Manager @Uber - Marketplace Data & Forecasting
Sudhir Tonse manages the Realtime Data Intelligence organization at Uber which is responsible for the Marketplace Data Pipeline, Storage and Compute framework as well as Insights and Marketplace Forecasting. Previously Sudhir managed the Cloud Platform Infrastructure team at Netflix and was...
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