About us
Are you working in the software/tech industry? Do you manage a team (or teams) of software developers? Have you ever wonder how you can be a better engineering manager? Come join this group to meet with other software managers, share your experience and resources, discuss about your challenges and learn from one another. We'll be discussing topics in engineering leadership, productivity, culture, scaling development teams and more.
Engineering Leadership Collective (previously known as Vancouver Software Development Managers) welcomes you to this community!
Upcoming events
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AI-SDLC: It's Still Just an SDLC (And That's the Point)
·OnlineOnlineEveryone's talking about vibe coding — just prompt and ship. But what happens when your vibe-coded app needs to handle real users, real money, and real compliance?
This talk looks at what a good AI-software development lifecycle actually requires. We'll look at a few open source projects related this helping problem — AWS AIDLC, BMAD, spec-kit, Superpowers, Compound Engineering, and more — pulling out what each gets right and where they fall short. From there, we'll build up a picture of the patterns that actually work: adaptive rigor that scales from POC to enterprise, domain-driven design as a defense against hallucination, BDD specs as frozen contracts, TDD enforcement the AI can't talk its way out of, and cross-session learning that makes each coding session smarter than the last.
AI doesn't eliminate your process problems — it exposes them. No tests? You're generating bugs at scale. No domain model? The AI hallucinates. No CI/CD? You've just created a merge queue. If you want AI to make you 10x faster, your processes need to be 10x more robust.
Best for developers, tech leads, and engineering managers who are past the hype and ready to build the foundation that makes AI development actually safe.
About the Speaker
Justin Hamade is a Engineering Manager and Principal Consultant at OpsGuru, an AWS Premier Tier Services Partner, where he leads cloud native development and AI development engagements for startup, SMB, and enterprise clients. His career spans leadership roles at Unity Technologies, Capgemini Engineering, and Apollo Insurance, as Co-founder/CTO — giving him a broad perspective across the software development lifecycle from startup to enterprise scale. (edited)Agenda (in PST)
5:00 – 5:15 PM — Welcoming + Social (small breakout groups)
5:15 – 6:25 PM — Talk + Q&A
6:25 – 6:30 PM — Wrap-upPlease note that this zoom meeting is password-protected. RSVP will end 12pm PST the day of the Meetup event. The zoom info will be sent to you (through Meetup) after the RSVP has closed - please check your email. Please join the zoom link with your real name.
Please RSVP if you are coming and please update promptly if your plan changes. Our "No Show" policy - we will remove you from the group if you RSVP but do not show up a few times. We hope that it would provide some fairness to our speakers, our organizers as well as other people who got onto the wait list wanting to come to our events.
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