Lightning Talks w/ Women of Scribd: Migrations, Owning Quality and more!

🌎 ACCESS TO OUR EVENT 🌎
WeWork's office is about a 3 minute walk away from Union Station and St. Andrew's Station

👋SIGN-IN PROCESS 👋
You can fill out a name tag and then head over to refreshments for some light food and drinks. We'll kick off the talks around 6:30PM.

*Accessibility Note: Front entrance has wheelchair accessible ramp so you can enter through the Front Street entrance

📝DETAILS 📝
1️⃣ Instrumenting your Code for Great Justice [Katerina Hanson]

The why's and how's of developing meaningful metrics, visualizing the health of your systems, and using instrumentation to effectively debug, deprecate, and optimize your code.

2️⃣ Don’t go chasing waterfalls: owning quality as a whole team effort in an agile world [Nikki Hernandez]

You might be familiar with “Agile” and “Waterfall” - but what about mini-waterfalls? They have a habit of sneaking up on us, even when we think we’re doing all the right Agile things. Join me to look at a common challenge many cross-functional teams run into during the development process as well as some tips, tricks, and practical test approaches that everyone can use to build and test quality products together.

3️⃣ Green Field Projects, Or How I Learned to Love Migrations [Paige Stone]

While we typically strive for small, incremental improvements, sometimes it's more efficient to treat existing code as sunk-costs, throw it away, and start over. My first major project was just such a situation - here is how we navigated getting the buy-in for a step-change re-write of our Marketing Integration.

4️⃣ Discussion Topic - What you seek is seeking you : Find the company and culture that is right for you [Harini Iyer]

In this agile world, only introspection can take us a long way. Working passionately for a product you are not passionate about and being indifferent towards a product you are passionate about are both ineffective use of time. I have been on both sides. I am going to talk about my journey from being shy, scared and suffering from severe imposter syndrome to comfortably breaking things and focusing on the solution than the problem.

📆SCHEDULE 📆
5:45 PM - 6:30 PM Arrival and Mingle
6:30 PM - 6:35 PM Introductions
6:35 PM - 6:50 PM : [Katerina]
6:50 PM - 7:05 PM : [Nikki]
7:05 PM - 7:20 PM : [Paige]
7:20 PM - 7:35 PM : [Harini]
7:35 PM - 8:00 PM : Q & A

📢YOUR SPEAKERS 📢

Katerina Hanson👋
(Software Development Manager)

Katerina is Engineering Manager at Scribd for the Payments and Emails teams. Excellent in Python and Ruby on Rails. In her free time, she enjoys training her cats to sit, baking extravagant cakes, riding small motorcycles, and fantasizing schemes for making money. Her current favorite book is "Why We Sleep".

Nikki Hernandez 👋
(Web QA Engineer)
Twitter: shweezy3

Nikki has had a life-long love affair with all things tech, and firmly believes every accidental network outage or smouldering circuit board was a chance to go bigger and build better the next time around. This attitude carries her through her work as a QA Engineer at Scribd. In her spare time she takes a lot of pictures of her cat, Tyler Purrden, plays guitar, and travels whenever possible.

Paige Stone 👋
(Software Engineer)

Paige works as an engineer on the Emails/Notifications team at Scribd. Before being an engineer, Paige used to manage an art store and prior to that, she was a professional driver at Uber where she used to test autonomous cars. She also likes to read, karate, and talk to people. She was born in beautiful Colorado mountains and never misses a chance to visit.

Harini Iyer 👋
(Lead Software Engineer)

Harini is a mom, engineer, artist and literature enthusiast in that order. She is a technical lead on the Payments team at Scribd; very passionate about product development by the way of code deletion. She likes to paint and is a Bob Ross fan. Her favorite books are Love in time of Cholera, An Equal Music and Snow.