Creating Transparency Across Teams by James Everingham
"Be transparent." We hear this all the time, but are we all on the same page about what it means? In our professional lives, transparency is a practice that helps us to communicate better, build trust, and increase engagement. The concept is simple: employees will make better decisions when they are better informed. But how do you get there? In this presentation, learn how Everingham measurably boosts transparency among his teams at Facebook.
James Everingham
James is the Vice President of Engineering at Meta, where he supports their DevInfra teams. DevInfra is responsible for building and running the core developer tools, services, and platforms that power Meta's products. During his time at Meta, James co-created Diem and served as the Head of Engineering at Instagram. With a 40-year career as a manager, entrepreneur, and technology developer, James has led numerous world-class engineering teams. At Yahoo, he was the Vice President of Engineering for Yahoo media properties after the acquisition of Luminate, an interactive image technology company he founded. His previous roles include SVP Eng at Lightspark, CTO and founding team member of LiveOps, Senior Director of Engineering at Tellme (acquired by Microsoft), and Senior Director of Engineering at Netscape Communications, where he was responsible for the flagship Netscape browser. Prior to joining Netscape, James held engineering and management positions at Oracle and Borland International.
