Title: Engineering Leaders online panel discussion

Date: Friday 15th of October at 4pm GMT (UK local time)

Duration: 60 minutes

We invite Technology Engineering Leaders from around the world to join this quarterly online panel discussion hosted by Indorse. Our audience has the opportunity to ask questions across any of the topics listed below chosen by our panelists.

Our panelists who are members of our Engineering Leaders community will kindly answer questions by sharing their knowledge and experience in the areas they are most passionate about.

Host:

Gaurang Torvekar, CEO/CTO, Indorse.io

Gaurang is the co-founder and CEO/CTO of Indorse. Gaurang has a deep background in technology and has more than a decade of experience building and leading teams of developers across the various organizations that he has been involved in. Indorse is his second startup. Before starting Indorse, he has worked as a Software Developer across various technologies such Data Science, HR Tech, Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence.

Our Panelists:

Smruti Patel, Senior Engineering Manager, StripeLeadership:

• Leadership coaching/mentoring/development
• Leading through change/uncertainty
• Leadership styles/philosophies

Teams & Technology:

• Debugging engineering velocity & leading high performing teams
• Cloud cost Optimization
• Leading migrations

Organisation:

• Leading cross-organizational strategy and impact
• Designing engineering organizational systems like hiring processes, engineering career frameworks and compensation parity reviews
• Structuring/scaling product & tech organisations

Chris Newton, VP of Engineering, Immersive Labs

Leadership:

• Leadership coaching/mentoring/development
• Leading through change/uncertainty
• Leadership styles/philosophies

Technology:

• Frontend (web & apps) architecture
• API strategy
• Legacy system migration/management

Organisation:

• Structuring/scaling product & tech organisations
• Mergers and acquisitions - people, process, technology integration
• Budgets and forecasting

Nik Gupta, Senior Engineering Manager, Amazon

Leadership

• Process vs Mechanisms. Why are mechanisms better than processes and how to use them
• Building and growing high performance engineering teams
• Growth via forced and volunteered “crucible moments” for yourself and your teams
• Setting up and managing 1:1s – what do I discuss with my manager/reportee?
• The art of delegation. What do I delegate, when, why, how?

Teams and Technologies

• From monoliths to micromess – the art/science of breaking apart monoliths but not creating silos of mess
• Trust what you can verify – the forcing mechanism you need to probe deep yet not be micromanaging
• When does team velocity become counter productive?

Organization

• Setup Programmes driven organizations, not projects.
• As the senior leader what cadence of meetings and on what topics you should be setting up
• Top down vs bottoms up initiatives – the right healthy mix and how to enable both
• The tension between Tech Debt and new features – what is the decision making framework you should keep in mind

Agenda:

• Intro from panel host
• Intro from the panelists
• Live Q&A with audience
• Closing remarks

How to join our Engineering Leaders Community:

Our Engineering Leaders community is a great way to learn and share knowledge with your peer group. We currently have 250+ members and growing, with an active Slack channel and weekly online roundtable sessions for Engineering Leaders to stay in touch and seek advice. To join our community, please email Richard Klatt on richard@indrose.io