Ras Kasa Williams is a software engineer with experience across product, platform, and data engineering. He’s currently at Netflix working on consumer-facing growth initiatives. Previously, he was at Malichimp where he led teams that built internal systems and tools to support product engineers, data scientists, and analysts.
He carves out time for everything from coaching/mentoring around career progression to building supportive communities for Black technologies through organizations like /dev/color.
How to get leadership buy-in on your tech strategy
For some Staff+ engineers, technical strategy development is an expectation, and not an easy one to navigate. Ras Kasa Williams is here to help you get buy-in for that strategy.
Understanding the role as a Staff engineer
How to define, develop and deliver in your role on the technical track.
Balancing user needs, platform health, and engineer growth
In this talk, Kasa will walk through tactics for addressing each challenge; things that work, things that don’t work, things that appear to work until they don’t at LeadDev Together.
Project Execution: Setting-up a cross-team project for success
In this panel, we’ll be focusing on successful strategies for landing big projects. We’ll discuss the principles of how to plan, conceptualize, and deliver big projects.