Christian McCarrick is currently an Engineering Leader at Facebook supporting Facebook Messenger. He has previously been the VP of engineering at many startups including most recently at Auth0. He is dedicated to improving the craft of software engineering leadership. He volunteers his time to mentor through the Everwise and Plato networks and teaches engineering workshops for new engineering managers. He also hosts a popular podcast called SimpleLeadership where he interviews top technology leaders in order to help other managers grow and be successful.
How to keep learning in leadership
This talk will dive into strategies you can use for staying technical while being a leader of the organization and as well give you tools to identify the areas that you need to be up to date on and what can you manage without knowledge.
Leading Engineering Teams Through Times of Uncertainty
At the core of an engineering managers’ role is the responsibility to ensure the happiness of your teams. As a leader, you’re expected to shield your teams from outside noise and create a stable environment for work - but what happens when there are situations too big for you to resolve?
Scaling yourself as a senior engineering leader
You've built websites that scaled to millions of users, indexed terabytes of data, and created automatic deployments to thousands of nodes - but now you’re struggling to manage a handful of people.
