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talks and workshops I have given

  • generous, high-fidelity communication

    why intra-team communication might be your most impactful investment as a leader/manager. part of the "Just Engineering Culture" track at QCon SF 2022

  • level up your team's code review

    lightning talk (actually an homage to Turning Red) at The Lead Developer NYC 2022

  • how to get more out of 1:1s with your manager

    delivered at internal day of learning event at GitHub

  • the path to becoming a Senior Engineering Manager

    unscripted chat with Jiaqi Liu for GOTO 2021

  • crochet patterns & programming paradigms

    rambling meditation on programming and fibre arts, Wavelength Conf 2021

  • the power of visual narrative

    storytelling by having fun with art, RailsConf 2021

  • learning to succeed on large software projects

    keynote talk for student audience at SINFO 28

  • sketch together online

    online sketching & doodling workshop!

  • why are distributed systems so hard?

    primer on distsys foibles and fallacies, with emphasis on human factors

    editions: DevOpsDays LDN 2018 | SRECon 2019 keynote | self.conf | LISA 2019 keynote | QCon 2020

  • tech talk proposal drafting kit

    worksheet for step-by-step proposal crafting

  • global diversity CFP day deck

    workshop deck for GDCFP Day in Toronto, January 2020

  • how to build more secure service brokers

    security best practices for service broker implementation. delivered at SpringOne Platform 2019

  • SRE for cats

    cats are relentless agents of chaos, which makes them highly relevant to SRE. delivered at PromptConf 2019

  • telling stories with doodles: WSC edition

    lengthened version of "Let's Sketch Tech" workshop for leveling up at sketching and doodling, with a view towards technical stories

  • let's build sustainable & empathetic cross-functional teams

    how principles from the Balanced Team pattern can make your team more aligned and empowered on strategy. delivered at Agile on the Beach 2019

  • developer portfolios

    lightning talk for IntersectTO career workshop

  • intro to TDD in go

    delivered at the inaugural GoCon Canada 2019

  • feedback week

    ignite talk on a self-regulating process for gathering peer feedback. delivered at DevOpsDays Toronto 2019

  • mentorship vs. sponsorship

    overview on differences between mentorship and sponsorship, and effective usages of each tool. delivered at Diversity Luncheon at Cloud Foundry Summit North America 2019.

  • it's dangerous to go alone! lessons learnt from onboarding new Cloud Foundry contributors

    reflections on designing and iterating towards an empathetic, collaborative engineering onboarding program. co-delivered with Andrew Su at Cloud Foundry Summit North America 2019.

  • telling stories with doodles

    hands-on workshop for leveling up at sketching and doodling, with a view towards technical stories

  • sketchnoting introduction

    unconference session at DevOpsDaysLDN 2018 on getting started with sketchnoting

  • intro to BOSH-deployed services

    the on-demand service broker SDK pattern for cloud foundry services, co-delivered with Zoe Vance at Cloud Foundry Summit Europe 2018. slides & video coming later

  • how to tech talk: a meta-discussion

    lightning talk on tips for getting started with technical speaking, from Cloud Foundry Summit Europe 2018 Unconference.

  • data-driven decision making

    how to apply product management skills to other aspects of working on agile teams, co-delivered with Zoe Vance at SpringOne Platform 2018.

  • competitive debate, gendered speech patterns & the tech industry

    reflections about gender-biased evaluation of communication styles. closing keynote on Speak day of Write/Speak/Code Conference 2018

  • what if you treat your pipeline like a product?

    product thinking as applied to continuous integration infrastructure. co-delivered with Mark Hender at PipelineConf 2018. [video]

  • building empowered teams at scale

    empirical study of a growing engineering organisation, told in the style of a lean startup manual, SwanseaCon 2017

  • why would anyone build a concourse resource?

    intro to concourse CI resource concept and design, London Concourse User Group, 2017

  • how to tech talk

    a workshop for generating technical talk ideas and surfacing shared interests

  • intro to COBOL

    COBOL overview and "hello world" tutorial, for SoCraTes UK 2018

  • intro to fp for Shanghai.js

    functional programming overview, slides in Chinese. delivered at ShanghaiJS in august 2016

  • functional reactive programming

    functional reactive programming lightning talk, various London meetups

  • just containerise it!

    intro to container technology, focused on Docker

  • domain design deep-dive

    hands-on domain modeling workshop, /dev/summer 2016

  • integration testing

    for makers alumni talks night, mid-2015

  • dysfunctional programming

    functional programming intro for makers alumni talks night, mid-2015, co-delivered with @gypsydave5

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