Finance Demystified for Engineering Leaders
Summary
When your CFO starts talking about “COGS, margin, Rule of 40, Quick Ratio, ARR, revenue etc…” how does engineering fit into this? In this session, Jayesh Sureshchandra (VPE @ Carta) helps us bridge the gap between finance and engineering! Engineering spend often represents a significant part of a company's budget and is especially important now in today’s non-ZIRP environment. You’ll learn how to comprehend different financial metrics, recognize their trends as your company evolves, and understand how strategic decisions within engineering can influence these numbers.
Speakers
Jayesh has over 17 years of experience building scalable B2B Enterprise SaaS applications, and is especially passionate about using technology to solve complex domain problems. He is currently a VP of Engineering at Carta, running both product and platform teams for Carta's Fund Administration product. Prior to Carta, Jayesh was the VP of Engineering at Duetto, a cloud-based SaaS application that drives pricing and distribution decisions for hotels. He also worked at Salesforce for over 5 years where he built several foundational features for the Force.com platform. Jayesh holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University.
