Tristan is a Principal Software Engineer for Eventbrite and has a passion for finding simplicity in complexity. He has recently spearheaded the Unified Modules initiative that aims to significantly improve the experience of developers working in the front end when making changes that impacts functionality core to all products and platforms. In his spare time (when there is some), Tristan likes to fly planes and socialise with friends (although not usually at the same time).
Tristan Heal
Tristan is a Principal Software Engineer for Eventbrite and has a passion for finding simplicity in complexity.
Letting the Best Ideas Win
In my talk I will explain that this is generally a pretty bad idea; it won’t surface the best ideas and it doesn’t let more junior engineers develop their skills. Instead, I introduce some steps you can take to make sure that the idea adopted to solve a problem is the best idea available, even if you aren’t the one who came up with it. Perhaps counter-intuitively I will show how this increases your influence in your organisation and sets everyone up for success.
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There and back again: A journey of complexity
Tristan Heal presents his journey in helping my company successfully modularise its frontend codebase, that started off being single product single platform to multiple products spanning multiple tech stacks across web, mobile and TV platforms today.
