Laura Thomson
Laura Thomson is SVP of Engineering at Fastly. Prior to Fastly, Laura spent more than a decade at Mozilla in a variety of engineering leadership roles, and has worked as a software engineer, company founder, consultant and computer science academic. She is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Internet Society, where she currently serves as Treasurer. She previously served on the board of ISRG, the nonprofit that operates Let’s Encrypt. She has written several books on various open source technologies, including the best-selling PHP and MySQL Web Development (with Luke Welling). Laura has contributed to many open source projects. In addition, she has spoken at dozens of conferences worldwide on a variety of technology topics. Laura is from Melbourne, Australia, but now lives in Maryland, USA.
The places you'll go: how to keep learning in leadership
Laura Thomson demonstrates how to keep up with technology trends as a leader.
The engineering leader's guide to motivational anti-patterns
Motivation mistakes and how to avoid them.
Motivating yourself and others to work on the less exciting systems
Save us from the new shiny
