Latest videos
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No promotion. Now what!?
Explore how to navigate promotion denial with resilience, clarity, and strategy to reignite career growth and fulfillment.
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Reimagining the image pipeline at Squarespace
This talk explores the evolution of Squarespace’s image pipeline—why change was needed, how the architecture adapted for scale and flexibility, and the unique challenges faced along the way.
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Un-becoming the bottleneck
The biggest obstacle to team growth is often Staff+ engineers themselves. Breaking this pattern requires more than just “org-wide impact” it calls for deep, deliberate focus on growing 2-3 key engineers around you.
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How to get buy-in when you’re not the boss
Practical strategies for influencing without authority in cross-functional teams
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The Pragmatic Engineer live podcast: How AI is changing engineering at Shopify with Farhan Thawar
Listen to a candid chat exploring Shopify’s AI strategy, remote velocity, and a unique approach to career growth.
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In partnership with VercelBridging the gap between requirements and technical detail
How to translate business needs into a clear technical roadmap? Leave ambiguity at the door
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Software engineering with GenAI
A look at how AI coding tools are reshaping software engineering, how teams are adapting, and what remains unchanged in the development process.
Highlights from our conferences
Measure for Change
Picking metrics is one thing. But the harder decisions lie in what to do with them afterward.
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Drive product gaps as an engineering leader
Discover practical strategies for engineering leaders to influence product development effectively, even in the absence of strong product management and a clear company vision.
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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?
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Idea to Innovation
Join me as we embark on a journey to dissect the anatomy of innovation, uncover strategies to unlock the full potential of ideas, and transform them into impactful realities. Let’s build a strong culture of innovation, and make sure that it is not just a buzzword but a tangible outcome.
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Slack enterprise key management: Senior to staff lessons
Explore the key lessons and skills Audrei gained during their first Staff+ project, Slack Enterprise Key Management. This talk offers insights for anyone growing in their Staff+ career.
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Overcoming security hurdles to push engineering velocity
How can you get your engineering teams to stop bypassing security requirements?
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Creating stability for teams in your organization
Creating stability for teams in your organization at LeadDev Together November 2021
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Using Open Source safely and effectively
How can you make sure your engineering teams are up to date with best practices on open source?
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Making a bigger impact through collaboration as a senior individual contributor
How can working with peers lead to individual career progression?
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The Manager’s Path: Camille Fournier in conversation
A guide for tech leaders navigating growth and change.
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Influencing without management authority as a senior individual contributor
Effectively communicating technical expertise.
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Progression, salary and promotions in your organization
Panelists get together at LeadDev Together to discuss Progression, salary and promotions in your organization.
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Onboarding and retention in your organization
Onboarding and retention in your organization. A panel discussion featuring leaders from GitHub and Doctolib at LeadDev Together.
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Successful onboarding and retention is a team effort
A conversation with Abel Martin on ways to scale successful onboarding & retention actions based on his current adventures at Rhino and his 16 years of experience in the field at LeadDev Together.
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Metrics to measure developer experience
Tim will be exploring micro-feedback loops, taking a look at low level friction, how it can quickly compound to affect motivation and productivity.
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Empower your teams to do their best work
As a senior leader, this talk builds upon the fundamental concepts with a focus on leveraging your team’s work for impact.
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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.
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Systems of efficient stability
Holly will talk through Slack’s system for managing ambient disruptions, detailing Slack’s process and the benefits it has brought at LeadDev Together.
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Supporting your team (and yourself!) in times of change
Aisha will share tips for how to clearly communicate strategy, build agility, identify the unique needs of your team members, and keep a pulse on your own needs during the process at LeadDev Together.
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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.
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Raising the subject of raises
This talk gives some practical advice and things to keep in mind when you are considering what type of pay raise to make. I’ll also provide some points to make the salary discussions in your performance reviews easier.
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Feedback: Vital for growth, tough to crack
Hena shares how Feedback combined with coaching can be a very powerful leadership technique that helps your teammates elevate to their next level at LeadDev Together.
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Designing an engineering career framework
Anirudh Todi introduces the approach taken when designing and iterating on our engineering career framework at Dropbox.
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Culture change in a hostile environment
Jason Wong discusses strategies and tactics for seeding cultural change, creating environments for that change to grow, and what are the limits to those changes at LeadDev Together.
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Hiring for culture add, not culture fit
Emily will share lessons learned from four years of evolving hiring practices at Honeycomb at LeadDev Together.
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Creating a culture of trust
Dana Lawson explores how to quickly build cultures of trust on engineering teams, outlining the benefits and giving practical advice at LeadDev Together.
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Utilizing the tools in your toolbox for onboarding and retention
Onboarding and retention are critical and yet many of us either aren’t spending enough time or the right kind of time to onboard and retain effectively.
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Onboarding: setting the foundation for growth
Cate Huston talks about onboarding for retention through the dual lenses of belonging and accomplishment at LeadDev Together.
