New York

October 15–17, 2025

Berlin

November 3–4, 2025

Joy Zheng

Joy is a software engineer at Plaid and works as an Architecture Lead focusing on Plaid’s reliability and engineering platforms.

Joy is a software engineer at Plaid and works as an Architecture Lead focusing on Plaid’s reliability and engineering platforms. She previously managed Plaid’s Core Services and International engineering teams, and was a co-founder of the Women+ ERG. Joy lives in San Francisco and spends most of her free time baking and reading.

Creating technical leadership in context

This talk will cover how Joy and Nathan overcame challenges at Plaid through the creation of a technical leadership structure parallel to management.

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