Engineering managers play many different roles based on the needs of their teams: coach, coder, architect, and recruiter. Their work is a key ingredient in their teams' short-term execution and long-term velocity. As a result, it is imperative for high growth startups to develop great engineering managers and help them scale with their teams.
Join many of the Bay Area’s top engineering leaders for an evening of food, drinks, and a town hall discussion about the role and best practices of engineering management.
You’ll learn strategies and tips from engineering leaders who have built successful teams at Slack, Dropbox, Asana, and Facebook. You’ll also have the opportunity to meet and share ideas with your engineering peers at other high growth tech companies.
CEO, honeycomb.io
Charity is the cofounder and CEO of honeycomb.io, a new approach to observability for microservices and distributed systems, and the coauthor of "Database Reliability Engineering". She has done everything from writing software to DBA'ing to engineering management, but her heart will always belong to operations.
CTO, Pilot
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Jessica McKellar is currently a founder and the CTO of Pilot, a bookkeeping firm powered by software. Previously, she was a founder and the VP of Engineering for Zulip, a real-time collaboration startup acquired by Dropbox. Before that, she was a computer nerd at MIT who joined her friends at Ksplice, a company building a service for rebootless kernel updates on Linux that was acquired by Oracle. These diverse experiences earned her a place in the Forbes 30 under 30 class of 2017 for enterprise software.
VP Engineering, Slack
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Michael Lopp is a Silicon Valley-based engineering leader who builds both people and product at companies such as Borland, Netscape, Palantir, Pinterest, and Apple. While he’s not worrying about staying relevant, he writes about pens, bridges, people, poker, and werewolves at the popular weblog, Rands in Repose. He works as the VP of Engineering at Slack in San Francisco where he’s furiously working on helping teams reinvent work.
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Dustin is the CEO and co-founder of Asana. As CEO, he's as dedicated to creating a product that helps teams collaborate effortlessly as he is to crafting a culture where Asanas can thrive and do the best work of their careers. That’s pretty much why he launched Asana. Before that, he co-founded Facebook, where he was a key technical leader, working first as CTO and then as VP of Engineering.
Dustin attended Harvard University for two years to study economics before moving to Palo Alto, CA, to work full time at Facebook.
Prashant is the Head of Engineering at Asana. Before joining Asana, Prashant started and led the Bay Area team building Amazon DynamoDB, a fully managed NoSQL database service. He also led engineering for mobile advertising start-up Vdopia and worked on storage systems at IBM Research.
Prashant earned an M.S. in Computer Science from UIUC, and a BTech(Hons) in Computer Science from BITS, Pilani.
