New York

October 15–17, 2025

Berlin

November 3–4, 2025

James Socol

James is a senior staff engineer, currently on sabbatical.

James is a senior staff engineer, currently on sabbatical, who has been building high-performance teams for over a decade. As both a manager and a technical leader, he has led the adoption of practices like CI/CD, feature flagging, inner source, shifting quality and security left while shifting human testing right. James works to align teams that can move autonomously and safely.