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Erin Sardo

Erin is a Senior Staff Engineer at Slack.

Erin Sardo is a SF-Bay area based software engineer who loves working cross-functionally on end-user experiences. Currently, she is focused on improving the way all Slack users can easily automate their work. Before starting at Slack in 2021, Erin worked at Google for 10y where she led many of the cross-product efforts in Gmail, Chat, Docs, and Slides. She has managed previously, but is currently enjoying being an individual contributor. When not working, she enjoys spending time with her family and reading sci-fi and fantasy books.

A cheat sheet for better internal communication

Communicating with your colleagues doesn’t have to be difficult. Here are some ways, and a few cheat sheets, to get you started on your journey.

Supporting Major Launches as a Staff+ IC

Erin Sardo covers what makes a good Release Captain including topics like how to think about rollout stages, rollback strategy planning, environment planning for sustained QA, cross-functional dependencies like help content and customer service traffic, delegation and aggregation.

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How to navigate uncertainty as a senior individual contributor

What is the process for determining where your expertise and efforts would be most valuable?

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