André is a Director of Engineering at Duolingo, where he leads engineering for the Duolingo English Test business unit, with a focus on product development, systems architecture and AI. He is passionate about leadership development, and scaling high-performing teams with a culture of collaboration and kindness. He was born in Brazil in a Japanese immigrant family, and currently lives in the Pittsburgh.
The art of getting the best out of your team
By modeling the behavior of your engineers, managers can boost execution and raise the bar of their whole team.
Organizational resilience
André Kenji Horie discusses how Duolingo thinks about resilience in the workplace, the tools provided to managers to help them develop their own resilience, as well as their direct reports, lessons learned and pitfalls avoided.