ALT: Engineer Onboarding Made Easy

Shift/Enter's ALT Series:
Always Learning Tech (ALT) is the monthly Meet-up series from Shift/Enter. Each session explores a continuing education topic for people in technology and tech-adjacent fields. This meetup will be hosted on Zoom.

ALT: Engineer Onboarding Made Easy

Engineer Onboarding can be made easier using software intended to onboard engineers 7x quicker than traditional engineer onboarding. In the discussion - Kristen will go in-depth into what is behind her company, Edify, and how it works within Slack.

Edify works by linking adult learning science with the resources engineers at all levels need in order to be successful. Founder & CEO Kristen Buchanan has seen how the tools engineering teams are using today aren’t serving their needs well and wanted to create a solution to this.

Presenter:
Kristen Buchanan is the CEO and Founder of Edify, a software company that helps software engineering managers build technical onboarding plans for their new hires. Kristen’s work links adult learning science with the resources engineers need in order to be successful. She is passionate about developing the future of high-performing engineering organizations so that engineering teams can build better products, faster.

Kristen started her first company in 2014, a learning & development consulting firm that architected and delivered onboarding programs for companies such as AWS Elemental, Puppet, OpenSky Alibaba, Cirium (FlightGlobal), Cloudability and more. There, she developed a method and technique she calls the “learning touchpoint matrix”, which organizes information and learning content for new hires in engineering.

Kristen Buchanan holds a BA in Museum Studies and Art History from Meredith College, with a concentration in adult learning. She has spoken at O’Reilly OSCON, DevOps Days among other conferences.