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Speaker: Carlos Arguelles
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Senior Principal Engineer @Amazon, 27 Years Experience in Developer Productivity Engineering, Previously @Google and @Microsoft
Carlos Arguelles is a Senior Principal Engineer at Amazon. He has 27 years of experience working in various aspects of Developer Productivity Engineering at Amazon, Google and Microsoft. He was a Technical Lead for company-wide Infrastructure for Integration Testing at Amazon for 6 years and held the same position at Google for 4 years.
Carlos is passionate about Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery and Core Developer Infrastructure for mid-to-large software companies. Spending nearly three decades at three of the largest software companies in the world, he has seen first-hand how hundreds of thousands of developers write code, review code, test code and deploy code at large scale. At these large companies, little inefficiencies can aggregate to developer fatigue and millions, hundreds of millions of dollars of productivity lost or wasted hardware resources. Carlos obsesses about how to make engineers' lives better, remove toil, improve efficiency, and raise the bar in engineering and operational excellence.
Carlos writes stories about his life at Amazon, Google and Microsoft in his blog. You can follow him at Linkedin.
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Session
Inflection Points in Engineering Productivity as Amazon Grew 30x
I joined Amazon in 2009, when we were a 3000-engineer company, and got to experience its fast growth from 3k to 90k engineers over a 15-yr period. During that time, our engineering productivity needs had a number of interesting inflection points.