Track Overview
From Remote to Hybrid Teams: Return to Office?
Last year saw the most radical transformation of the work environment since the advent of the Internet. While remote work is not new, the COVID-19 pandemic instantly forced it upon unsuspecting workers around the world. After adapting to fully distributed remote work, teams are now seeing another challenge appear on the horizon: as offices re-open, some workers will be enthusiastically returning to their desks, while others will remain remote. What does the future of work look like in this hybrid world? In this track, we will reflect on the last year+ of remote work and look ahead to how we will adapt to a hybrid future.
From this track
Lessons Learned from Remote-first SRE
Monday Nov 1 / 12:10PM EDT
Legend has it that there is a Netlify office. Personally, I've never seen it. While I joined during the pandemic, we've been a remote-first company for years. On the other hand, many teams throughout our industry were thrust unexpectedly into remote work during the pandemic. For all...
James McNeil
Site Reliability Engineer @Netlify
The Spectrum of Synchronousness
Monday Nov 1 / 01:10PM EDT
With 2020 being a year of unexpected distributed working, and with the future of our industry looking more remote, being able to wield the right tools for communicating efficiently has never been more important.We need to shift to asynchronous communication for remote working. But when,...
James Stanier
Director of Engineering @Shopify
Remote Onboarding: A Houseplant's Story
Monday Nov 1 / 02:10PM EDT
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in many new experiences - both professional and personal. According to recent reports, 1 in 4 Americans have transitioned to work remotely and a surprising 1 in 3 households welcomed at least one houseplant. Similar to welcoming a houseplant...
Kate Wardin
Engineering Manager, Studio UI Developer Productivity @Netflix
Remote and Hybrid Teams Panel
Monday Nov 1 / 03:10PM EDT
The future of teams is increasingly looking personalized... kind of like your Netflix queue. The removal of the expectation and the obligation to be physically present in the same room is providing opportunities for teams to experiment, learn and adopt practices that confer both flexibility and...
Kate Wardin
Engineering Manager, Studio UI Developer Productivity @Netflix
James Stanier
Director of Engineering @Shopify
Miriam Goldberg
Engineering Manager @Netflix
James McNeil
Site Reliability Engineer @Netlify
Speakers from this track
James McNeil
Site Reliability Engineer @Netlify
James is a lapsed strategy consultant who did a coding bootcamp on a whim and hasn't looked back. He is interested in equal measure by human factors in incident response and computer networking. He has plenty of time to think about both as a Site Reliability Engineer at Netlify. He works...
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James Stanier
Director of Engineering @Shopify
Dr. James Stanier is a computer science Ph.D who made the jump from software engineer to manager and has never looked back. He is a Director of Engineering at Shopify. James has written about his experiences on his blog The Engineering Manager, and recently published "Become An Effective...
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Kate Wardin
Engineering Manager, Studio UI Developer Productivity @Netflix
Kate Wardin has always been passionate about the people side of software development. She is a currently an Engineering Manager at Netflix working remotely in Minneapolis, MN. Outside of her day job, she enjoys organizing events that enable underserved communities to develop a passion and...
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Miriam Goldberg
Engineering Manager @Netflix
Miriam Goldberg has been working in software development for nearly 20 years, in a variety of fields, from bioinformatics to natural language processing, payments, and now API infrastructure. She joined Netflix in early 2021 as the engineering manager for their federated GraphQL team. Miriam has...
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Miriam Goldberg
Engineering Manager @Netflix
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Vishal Verma
Engineering Manager @Netflix
Track Host
Miriam Goldberg
Engineering Manager @Netflix
Miriam Goldberg has been working in software development for nearly 20 years, in a variety of fields, from bioinformatics to natural language processing, payments, and now API infrastructure. She joined Netflix in early 2021 as the engineering manager for their federated GraphQL team. Miriam has...
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Vishal Verma
Engineering Manager @Netflix
Vishal's journey in the technology industry has taken him through vistas as varied as 3D graphics, networking, mobile security, social networks and entertainment. As a software engineer for most of his career, Vishal loves building stuff. For the last few years, he's been finding...
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