Erica Stanley
Erica Stanley is an engineering leader, community organizer, and tech diversity & inclusion advocate. She is a Director of Engineering at Google Play. Erica is also active in the Atlanta technology community. She founded the Atlanta network of Women Who Code and is a co-founder of REFACTR.TECH
Erica Stanley is an engineering leader, community organizer, and tech diversity & inclusion advocate. She is a Director of Engineering working with Google Play and a Venture Partner at Outlander Labs. During her 20-year career, she’s worked in Fortune 500 companies, early-stage startups, and academia. She holds a B.S and M.S in Computer Science from Clark Atlanta University and has conducted post-graduate research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she specialized in graphics, visualization, and telepresence.
Erica is active in the Atlanta technology community. She helps develop and teach youth coding programs, speaks at conferences, and user groups, and mentors entrepreneurs for incubators and accelerators. She founded the Atlanta network of Women Who Code and co-founded REFACTR.TECH, a tech conference series that showcases technologists from underrepresented and marginalized backgrounds.
Technical Strategy as a Superpower
This talk will give you an understanding of what makes a ‘good’ or ‘bad’ strategy, how to craft one, how to articulate and communicate it, and how to adapt it as times change.
Understanding difficult conversations in your own organization
Real life situations and frameworks for having difficult conversations.
Avoiding the pitfalls of rebuilding software
If you think back to the work you were doing last year, it probably feels miles away - and that’s great! As engineers, we’re continually building and creating great new stuff - it’s what we do.
Creating code reviews that reflect your team's culture
Our engineering workflow revolves around our code review process. Code reviews are more than just a way to make sure we don’t introduce new bugs into the codebase.
Perspectives on what a culture of belonging actually looks like
Building a culture that is equitable is an essential part of your job; and an essential part of equitability is belonging.
So you want to build antiracist teams?
Putting the work in to make the tech industry do better
