Kirsten Westeinde
Kirsten Westeinde is a technology enthusiast and a lifelong learner. She is a development manager at Shopify, where she solves challenging web development problems every day. She worked with Ruby on Rails for ~5 years, and has been working with Golang for the past 2. She is constantly learning and adding new tools to her technology tool belt. She is passionate about building diverse teams, mentoring & teaching, and gaining new perspectives through travel & cross cultural communication. She loves to share her learnings through public speaking and writing.
The importance of happiness
Every leader knows that employee happiness is important, but how important is it?
Harnessing the power of storytelling to become a better leader
When we’re talking to engineers about change, we often just talk about what the change will be and not the context, why it’s necessary, and why we think it will be successful.
Designing software to maximize developer productivity
Having worked extensively in the Shopify codebase, one of the largest rails apps in existence, I have experienced firsthand some of the downsides of working in monolithic codebases.
