Summary
Code generation is now virtually instantaneous, but human review has never been more expensive—and shipping faster today shouldn't mean delivering slower tomorrow.
When business demands rapid delivery, engineering organizations face intense operational strain. We often hear the familiar quoted trade-offs: "we will fix technical debt next sprint," or "we just need to get this MVP out and rewrite it later."
As engineering leaders, we know these shortcuts compound into permanent roadblocks, causing system fragility, developer burnout, and a complete halt to velocity.
In this interactive roundtable, we will solve the ultimate engineering leadership paradox: protecting code quality and stability without missing critical deadlines.
We will focus on:
- Real-world game rules
- Defining non-negotiable architectural baselines
- Translating technical debt into business metrics
Join us for a candid strategy session to establish a unified framework for holding the line so teams move fast without breaking the foundation.
Host
Dharmesh Thakkar
Senior Software Development Manager, Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Dharmesh Thakkar is Head of Engineering at Amazon Web Services, leading platform and performance engineering for Elastic Block Store, one of the largest distributed storage systems in the world, managing hundreds of petabytes of storage and trillions of IOs per day.
With 20+ years of engineering leadership across AWS, Salesforce, NetApp, and EMC, Dharmesh is driven by a singular belief: that empowered engineering teams build products that truly delight customers. He is passionate about scaling teams and the mechanisms that support them, investing deeply in people's growth, and embedding continuous improvement as a cultural cornerstone; not a process checkbox.
Dharmesh holds an MBA from Babson College and an MS in Computer Science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
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