Building a Happy, Fulfilled Engineering Team to Drive Business Success
Summary
True success in any workplace requires a commitment to our people. Pedro Canahuati (CTO @ 1Password) and Lakshmi Baskaran (VP of Engineering @ Metadata) will discuss how fostering happiness and emotional investment in work amongst engineering teams is vital for crafting exceptional products.
Pedro will share ways to unlock happiness and engagement in engineering teams, uncover individual motivations, strategies to boost team engagement, and nurture a culture that embraces risk, failure, and exploration.
You'll learn how to apply specific tactics to increase employee engagement, such as holding AMAs and conducting open and blameless postmortems after incidents.
Speakers
Pedro Canahuati is the chief technology officer (CTO) of 1Password. Prior to 1Password, Pedro spent 12 years at Facebook where he held a number of roles committed to scaling its global infrastructure and ensuring 24x7 availability by developing a new industry standard for operations @ scale named Production Engineering. Most recently, as the VP of Engineering for Security and Privacy his role focused on protecting users and their data. Prior to Facebook, Pedro led geographically dispersed teams, scaling complex web operations for companies like Buzzmedia, Qloud, Namemedia and Verio/NTT. Pedro holds degrees in Computer Science and Information Systems from the University of Maryland and American Intercontinental University. At 1Password, Pedro applies his experience scaling teams and technology for one of the largest tech companies in the world, ensuring 1Password remains a leader in privacy and security. He drives product and infrastructure development for our production environments, client apps, data systems and IT. He ensures 1Password is building robust, reliable products and services that serve the families and businesses that entrust their data to us.
Sushma (Sue) is a technology leader and executive passionate about building highly performant, scalable engineering systems and driving business outcomes. She has over a decade of experience across various consumer facing businesses and marketplaces and is currently the CTO at Trusted Health. She is excited about building a culture that encourages learning, growth, and effective processes that span remote teams and all levels of the organization. Sue is also passionate about driving diversity/inclusion initiatives and creating products that solve people problems through the power of technology. Her motto is “Make a lot of decisions since it enables you to think, learn and grow faster”. A leader that is known to bring calm to the chaos, Sue is constantly pushing herself to learn and grow, and to build products that make a real difference in people’s lives.
