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Speaker: Kathleen Vignos
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VP, Software Engineering @Capital One, Previously Engineering Director @Twitter and @WIRED, Mentor, Facilitator, Speaker, 25+ Years in Tech
Kathleen Vignos has spent 25+ years working at tech companies and startups in Silicon Valley. She currently serves as VPE in the Card Tech organization at Capital One, leading large scale transformation projects leveraging cloud, serverless, and AI/ML. Previously in her 6 years at Twitter, Kathleen led teams working on promoted tweet ML review, tweet translation, abuse tooling, and infrastructure automation across on-prem, Google Cloud, and AWS environments. Prior to Twitter, Kathleen led the engineering department at WIRED through complete site and infrastructure redesign and was lead engineer for projects like Apple News. Kathleen and her spouse enjoy living, working, and running long distances in San Francisco, and they cheer on their two adult children as both break into the tech industry. She blogs at kathleencodes.com.
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Session
Built to Outlast: Cultivating a Culture of Resilience
In the tech industry, where the only constant is change, the companies and individuals who survive the longest are those who have learned to reinvent themselves over and over again by learning to thrive in chaos and uncertainty.