Smruti Patel is the VP of Engineering at Apollo Graph, the leading graphQL platform for building highly performant APIs, at scale, for rapid digital transformation. She has led and scaled high performing engineering teams at Stripe and VMware, building critical infrastructure for global businesses. Her interests include mentoring and coaching, hiking with her boys, and traveling the world.
How to implement platform engineering at scale
In this webinar, we’ll hear from enterprise engineering leaders who’ve overcome cultural barriers and team silos, and successfully adopted platform engineering practices in their orgs.
How to successfully lead your team through a downturn
Navigating the challenges of going from a boom time to a downturn is demanding, especially if this is your first time as a manager experiencing this sort of environment.
Elevating your leadership skills during tough times
What skills do you need to be a great leader during economic uncertainty?
Growth in a downturn
In this talk, Smruti Patel asks, if hyper-growth is marked by spending more to make more, what does building for enduring growth look like?
Debugging engineering velocity and leading high-performing teams
This talk will give you a playbook to analyze and work on your team’s engineering velocity— and ultimately, to create an environment where people work together at their highest potential.
Driving effective Prioritization for optimal business outcomes
Learn how to identify and build upon the skills needed for having effective prioritization conversations.
Executing and evaluating a technical strategy at scale
Driving a technical strategy across multiple teams
Metrics - a primer, to drive precision, speed, quality & impact
As managers or senior leaders, this talk will give you a primer for leveraging metrics for the objectives you seek, outcomes you desire, and the behaviors you want to incentivize or disincentivize within your engineering organization.
Fostering autonomy and trust to lead high-performing teams
How to fuel individual motivation, team velocity, and organization scale through your culture
Navigating engineering performance reviews: part two
How to effectively evaluate your reports, calibrate across teams, and give feedback
Navigating engineering performance reviews
How to effectively evaluate yourself and your peers.
Understanding your team’s velocity
A panel discussion on being able to examine the speed of your team in depth is crucial to propelling them forward.
Why you need an engineering ladder, and when to build one
Facilitate an engineering culture of fairness, transparency, and consistency
Debugging engineering velocity and leading high-performing teams
Looking beyond the speed of delivery to identify what's really slowing your team down.
