Latest videos
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Engineering leadership in 2025: Thriving when budgets shrink
Find practical strategies for leading engineering teams through budget pressure by aligning decisions with impact, focus, and value.
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Coherent impact: The art of strategy
Explore how to turn short-term chaos into long-term impact through practical strategies for resilient, grounded engineering leadership.
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Scaling systems, scaling influence: Lessons from distributed architecture
Scaling systems and scaling influence share the same principles. Learn how distributed systems thinking can help you become a more effective technical leader at scale.
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In partnership with StytchAre you ready for AI agents?
AI is changing how apps get accessed – are your systems built to keep up?
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In partnership with CoderHow to refactor without killing morale
Refactoring isn’t the problem; it’s how we manage it.
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In partnership with DXMeasuring the impact of AI in engineering
Insights from LeadDev’s inaugural AI Impact Report.
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In partnership with HoneycombEscape the observability maturity trap
How to assess where you are, and level up your observability culture, practices, and impact.
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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Building security into your engineering workflow
You don’t need to sacrifice delivery times when building a secure product
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Addressing technical skills gaps in your engineering team
Identify and fill training gaps that slow you down.
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In partnership with Codility
Codility – Where the best engineering teams are built
Looking to hire a word-class engineering team faster without wasting engineering or recruiting time?
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In partnership with Rollbar
Introduction to Continuous Code Improvement
Join our solutions engineer to understand how we can help reduce deployment time and cost with an accuracy that you and your team can rely on.
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In partnership with Just Eat Takeaway
Developing a courier app in a leading food-tech company
Join us for our demo where Mert Kilic, Senior Software Developer at our Berlin Tech Hub, will give an introduction to our new restaurant courier app which we launched in February this year.
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In partnership with LinearB
Start your Engineering Metrics Program with LinearB
We’re going to show you the most important team-based metrics to track, how to identify workflow bottlenecks and proven tactics for improvement.
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Decision Making for Software Engineering Teams: Francesco Strazzullo in conversation
How to be mindful on what data you need to decide on
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Luminary Interview with Coraline Ada Ehmke
As you grow as a technical leader, identifying career paths and opportunities can be difficult and you can easily get stuck without knowing what it takes to get you to the next level.
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Getting your engineers on board with observability
Do your engineers have visibility into your systems?
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Building a successful and sustainable CI/CD pipeline
Ship faster with an effective deployment strategy.
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Luminary Interview with Diane Tang
As you grow as a technical leader, identifying career paths and opportunities can be difficult and you can easily get stuck without knowing what it takes to get you to the next level. So as a Senior IC, how do you get here? What is the job like? How do you map your career map?
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Luminary Interview with Lea Kissner
As you grow as a technical leader, identifying career paths and opportunities can be difficult and you can easily get stuck without knowing what it takes to get you to the next level.
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Don’t bring a knife to a gun fight: selling the value of investment
This talk will help you understand and sell the value of investment work so that you can collaborate with non-engineers to get it prioritized.
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So you’re Staff+ … now what?
This talk will cover how to define your development journey as a Senior IC, figuring out what you should be working on, how to set your goals, and keep track of your progress.
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Added to the List: How to build technical domain expertise
In this talk, we go over tips on how to land an opportunity that allows for technical domain exploration, how to efficiently learn from the experience, and how to utilize your new domain expertise for career growth.
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In partnership with Shopify
No more ad-hoc requests!* From data service to data product teams
In this talk, I’ll walk through what it would take to achieve this for your organization. If you’re a data or engineering leader and have struggled with managing internal work in progress of your data teams, this talk is for you.
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In partnership with GitLab
Integer overflows, bad UX, and other ways to waste $870 million
Learn how a DevSecOps mentality is intended to overcome the biases we have for simplicity in our human model of complex systems.
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Navigating the manager <> senior IC relationship
In this panel, we’ll explore the senior IC manager relationship, thinking about how to create a mutually beneficial partnership.
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To kill it with fire, or not to kill it with fire?
This talk explores the technical, organizational, cultural, and psychological factors that matter when we choose between full rewrites or incremental change.
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Technical strategy power chords
This talk will be most useful for folks just getting started with technical strategy, but even virtuosos may get a useful tip or two.
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Scaling Incident Management: How we grew Google Meet 50x during COVID19
This talk will cover how we organized the work — human, technical, and organizational — needed to prevent outages while we strove to keep ahead of pandemic-driven explosive product growth, and we’ll apply it to future long-running, large-scale incidents.
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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.
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Role and Influence: The IC trajectory beyond Staff
As you become an increasingly senior IC, subtle changes in the scope of your role shape the kinds of influence you can have and are expected to have
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Live long and prosper as a senior IC
In this chat, we’ll explore how Vulcan logic can inform communicating and acting ethically.