IndeedEng Talks: Tech Leadership and Management (Lead Developer Event)
This talk was held on Wednesday, December 05, 2018 at 5:00pm
@IndeedEng partnered with Indeed Prime to host an evening Meetup that kicked off the 2018 Lead Developer conference. Our focus: the challenges facing today’s engineering managers and technical leaders.
Date and Time: December 5, 2018 — the evening before The Lead Developer:
5:00 – 5:30 pm : Meet and Greet
5:30 – 7:30 pm : Presentations
7:30 – 8:00 pm : Discussions
Location: Indeed, 201 West 5th Street, 18th Floor (Kitchen), Austin, TX 78701 — in the heart of downtown Austin!
The Lead Developer Conference was hosted under this code of conduct.
Our lineup of talks:
Bossing Bosses (Like a BOSS)
Speaker: Ketan Gangatirkar, Vice President of Engineering, Indeed
Ketan runs software engineering for Indeed’s Job Seeker products. While he’s not perfect today, he was even worse in the past. He’s spent eighteen years in the industry and ten at Indeed. One highlight was the four tumultuous years when he went from IC to boss to bossing bosses, making a ton of mistakes along the way. His loss can be your gain – learn how to avoid the mistakes he made so you can be a better leader.
Revolt, Regroup, Rebuild: Community at Scale
Speaker: Kelly Churchill, Development Manager, IBM
In this talk, Kelly told the story of how we created a community of practice at IBM to address a need (revolt!), how through sharing knowledge and growing skills we are restlessly re-inventing ourselves (regroup!), and how we are sustaining and scaling the community by leveraging our company’s thought leaders (rebuild!)
Lunch & Learn: A model for sharing knowledge and getting your team excited about public speaking!
Speaker: Gaurav Sanghani, Software Engineer, Indeed
Gaurav Sanghani is a Senior Software Engineer on Indeed Prime, where we help tech talent find their perfect job. As his team’s Tech Lead, Gaurav is tasked with mentoring new engineers, advising architectural decisions, pushing the technical envelope forward, and finding ways for his team to continue to learn and grow their technical skills.
Path is not Defined — Providing a Transparent Roadmap for Career Development
Speaker: Randy Tolentino, Front End Developer, IBM
Randy is a Front End Developer living in the greater Austin area who helps build high quality client-facing experiences for IBM Security applications. When not at work, he enjoys going on ‘family dates’ with his wife and their two sons.
Speakers
Ketan Gangatirkar leads Engineering at Indeed for Job Seeker products. For the last 9 years, he's been helping millions of people get jobs. Along the way, he's made some good product decisions and some terrible ones. He used to think he had great ideas, but being wrong all the time cured him of that. Now all he wants is scientific evidence. He was analytical before it was cool. It's not cool, and it never has been, but he's still hoping. Someday. Someday…
Kelly Churchill leads a team of developers on the IBM Design core team. In addition, as the FED@IBM program lead, she promotes front-end development best practices and supports a global community of front-end developers.
Gaurav Sanghani is a Senior Software Engineer on Indeed Prime, where we help tech talent find their perfect job.
Randy Tolentino is a Front End Developer living in the greater Austin area who helps build high quality client-facing experiences for IBM Security applications.