LeadDev New York 2019

When hiring, have you noticed the shift in candidates asking less about your tech, and more about how they can progress in your business?

Your organization is going through an unprecedented period of growth. How do you keep up?

An effective framework for leading your engineering team through change.

Career conversations are a necessary part of your direct report’s growth, but without care, these meetings can lack purpose, meaning, and impact.

Your team has communication problems. You just can't see them because you all sit in the same room.

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.

Keeping an application stable starts off being simple since your codebase is small, there are few points of failure, and you can easily reason about the implications of code changes.

How confident are you in your prod servers staying up without your help?

Your job title says "software engineer", but you seem to spend most of your time in meetings.

True or False. Zero or One. Computers are viciously black and white in their logic. Humans, on the other hand, are messy — Emotional, forgetful, biased and opinionated.