Speaker: Randy Shoup
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SVP Engineering @Thrive Market, Previously @eBay, @Google, @Stitch Fix
Randy has spent more than three decades building distributed systems and high performing teams, and has worked as a senior technology leader at eBay, Google, Stitch Fix, and WeWork. He coaches CTOs, advises companies, and generally makes a nuisance of himself wherever possible. He talks a lot -- sometimes at conferences about software -- and is interested in the nexus of culture, technology, and organization.
He is currently SVP Engineering at Thrive Market.
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Session
Platform Engineering: Lessons from the Rise and Fall of eBay Velocity
Once a stock market darling and a pioneering hyperscaler in the 1990s and early 2000s, eBay has been in steady decline since the 2010s. A household name with a flat business, eBay has been unable to make substantive strides in its market reach or its engineering outcomes in the last 15 years.
Date
Monday Nov 17 / 02:45PM PST ( 50 minutes )
Location
Ballroom BC
