Track host
About the track
Companies need to balance between rapid feature development and long-term product sustainability, and engineers are taking on more left-shifted, cognitive load as their features intersect with user privacy, security, accessibility, and regulations. There is no one-size-fits-all approach to Engineering Productivity, especially as market, scaling, and economic demands influence prioritization. What approaches, philosophies, and techniques have companies and products at very different points in their overall lifecycle successfully applied to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of development?
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Sessions in this track
Tuesday 19 November. 6 sessions per track, chosen and introduced by the Track Host.
10:35 Seacliff ABC Session Productivity Productivity Lessons in Moving from Big Tech to Scaling a Startup Rachel Potvin SVP Eng @Sanity.io with 25 Years in Tech, Previously @Google and @GitHub, Engineering Leader Focused on Building Productive Happy Teams Most productivity research happens in large tech companies. Many of the lessons learned there apply to the world of Startups as well, but some don't carry over. 11:45 Seacliff ABC Session Engineering productivity Inflection Points in Engineering Productivity as Amazon Grew 30x Carlos Arguelles Senior Principal Engineer @Amazon, 27 Years Experience in Developer Productivity Engineering, Previously @Google and @Microsoft 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. 13:35 Seacliff ABC Session Security or Convenience - Why Not Both? Dorota Parad CEO @Authress, Product and Team Builder, Test Enthusiast Traditionally, security is all about creating obstacles and making it difficult to access data. This is at odds with our drive for a more smooth and faster development process. How can we keep the software we’re building secure without adding friction for engineers? 14:45 Ballroom BC Session Research Supporting Engineering Productivity for All Emerson Murphy-Hill Research Scientist at the Intersection of Software Engineering and Human-Computer Interaction, Former Googler and Professor Understanding what drives software development productivity is the key to making high-impact investments in engineering productivity. 15:55 Ballroom BC Session Engineering Efficiency Shifting Left for Better Engineering Efficiency Ying Dai Principal Software Engineer @Roblox, Working on Improving Engineering Efficiency. Previously @Google & @LinkedIn In this presentation, I will share two critical migration stories - one focuses on production monitoring and the other on production deployments with automated validations. 17:05 Ballroom A Session AI/LLMs Slack's AI-Powered, Hybrid Approach for Large-Scale Migration from Enzyme to React Testing Library Sergii Gorbachov Staff Software Engineer @Slack, Specializing in AI-Driven Tools for Automating Code Migrations and Test Authorship With the Enzyme test framework no longer supporting React 18, migrating to React Testing Library (RTL) became imperative.QCon San Francisco 2024 is a three day conference for senior software engineers, architects and team leads. An international program committee of working engineers selects every session. Patterns and practices, not products and pitches.