Amanda is a San Francisco transplant from Denver, Colorado with a great love for coffee. She is a software engineer for BuildingConnected, which is a startup focused on connecting businesses in the preconstruction industry. She previously worked on the rentals team at Zillow.
In her spare time she attends hackathons as a coach for Major League Hacking and does work for climate action advocacy groups. She enjoys writing, speaking, and obsessively reading about sharks.
Meeting your people where they are
Amanda Sopkin breaks down some of the big ways in which people are different: communication styles, ways they prefer to receive appreciation, and attitudes towards career progression.
Building a better testing culture
How can engineering leaders create a healthy testing culture with clear strategies in place?
Refactoring: Managing technical debt before it blows up in your face
Amanda Sopkin invites you to come and learn how to develop your own framework for addressing technical debt as a company.
Crafting efficient on-call processes
In this panel, we’ll discuss the fundamentals of an effective on-call process - thinking about how to diagnose your current state, iterate and improve, and how to avoid mistakes along the way.
