What we’re about
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SFELC has migrated from Meetup to its own website (https://sfelc.com/). Please register on the website instead of here. All future events will be announced there. Through the website, you can see videos and photos of past events, as well as other resources, such as book lists, etc.
ABOUT US
SFELC is a curated community of engineering leaders with 2000+ leaders from over 800 companies. Although we started in San Francisco, we are here to serve all engineering leaders.
OUR MISSION
To connect world's engineering leaders and help evolve the way leadership is implemented in the tech industry.
OUR BELIEFS
• Most problems we face have been solved by others in the community. What's missing is the connection.
• Everyone (even the least experienced) has learnings valuable to others.
• Our challenges are often nuanced and context-dependent, so having dialogs is critical.
RESOURCES
• YouTube channel for some of our past events: http://bit.ly/2ySKaRD ;
• Slides from our past speakers: http://bit.ly/2JZetrj ;
• Photos from recent events: http://bit.ly/2wh9kch
PAST SPEAKERS
• Tim Correia, SVP and General Manager @ Trulia
• Jason Fennell, Former SVP of Engineering @ Yelp
• Samantha Stoller, Sr. Staff Engineer @ Slack
• Kimber Lockhart, CTO @ One Medical Group
• Tomas Barreto, VP, Product & Engineering @ Checkr
• Deep Varma, VP of Engineering @ Trulia
• Dan Portillo, Former Talent Partner @ Greylock
• Wade Chambers, CTO & SVP of Engineering @ Grand Rounds
• Li Fan, Head of Engineering @ Lime
• Andy Fang, Co-founder & CTO @ DoorDash
• Jerry Krikheli, VP of Engineering @ Houzz
• Adam Wolff, VP of Engineering @ Robinhood
• Jean Hsu, Co-Founder @ Co Leadership
• Ming Hua, Engineering Director @ Facebook
• Jessica McKellar, Founder & CTO @ Pilot
• Erika Reinhardt, Engineering Manager @ Stripe
• Joanne Pons, VP of Engineering @ MyVest
• Allen Cheung, Senior Director of Engineering @ Affirm
• Rolf Jensen, SVP Engineering @ Tradeshift
• Maria Latushkin, SVP Engineering @ Omada Health
• Souvik Das, SVP Engineering @ Zenefits
• Dan Pupius, Co-Founder & CEO @ Range Labs
• Lei Yang, VP & Head of Engineering, Quora
• Jocelyn Goldfein, Managing Director @ Zetta Venture Partners
• Raylene Yung, Head of Payments, Stripe
• Mike Riccio, Director of Engineering, Google
• Krishna Bhagavan, GM, Alexa Reminders, Amazon
• Michael White, Head of Engineering, Caviar, Square
• Jason Warner, SVP of Technology, GitHub
• Dave Camp, VP of Engineering, Firefox at Mozilla
• Wade Foster, CEO & Co-founder @ Zapier
• Dana Lawson (moderator), VP of Engineering @ InVision
• Tim Olshansky, CTO @ Aconex
• John Thimsen, VP of Engineering @ Qualtrics
• Edward Kim, Co-founder & CTO @ Gusto
• Andy Chen, Partner @ Kleiner Perkins
• Naveen Gavini, Head of Product Engineering @ Pinterest
• David Silverman, former Navy SEALs Officer, Author of "Team of Teams", Founder & CEO @ CrossLead
• James Birchler, VP of Engineering @ SmugMug
• Wade Chambers, CTO & SVP of Engineering @ Grand Rounds
• Daniel Portillo, Talent Partner @ Greylock
• Scott Shumaker, VP of Engineering @ Credit Karma
• Jessica McKellar, Founder & CTO @ Pilot
• Soren Harner, VP of Engineering @ Mulesoft
• Nik Koblov, VP of Engineering @ Affirm
• Adrian McDermott, President of Products @ Zendesk
• Soren Abildgaard, Senior VP of Engineering @ Zendesk
• Mark Rabkin, VP of Engineering @ Facebook
• Deborah Liu, VP of Product, Marketplace @ Facebook
• Rob Mee, CEO @ Pivotal
• Steve Herrod, Managing Director @ General Catalyst, Former CTO & SVP of R&D @ VMware
• Jason Warner, SVP Technology @ GitHub
• Raylene Yung, Senior Engineering Leader @ Stripe
• Joe Binney, VP of Engineering @ Robinhood
• Lee Edwards, CTO @ Teespring
• Bill Portelli, Managing Partner @ CEO Quest, Co-founder and former CEO @ CollabNet
• Nick Caldwell, VP of Engineering @ Reddit
• Tim Correia, VP of Engineering & Product @ Zillow Group
• Wade Chambers, VP of Engineering @ Twitter
• Ron Lichty, Author of Manage the Unmanageable
• Simon Perryman, Director of Engineering @ Twitch
• Matt Greenberg, Sr. Director of Engineering @ Credit Karma
• Dan Pupius, former Head of Engineering @ Medium
OUR SPONSOR:
We are proudly partnering with Greylock Partners as our sponsor, who has been helping us tremendously since our early days.
From Greylock Partners:
"Greylock Partners backs entrepreneurs who are building disruptive, market-transforming consumer and enterprise software companies. We invest early in companies that define new markets, including Airbnb, AppDynamics, Arista Networks (NYSE: ANET), Cloudera (NYSE: CLDR), Docker, Dropbox, Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), LinkedIn (NYSE: LNKD), Medium, Nextdoor, Okta (NASDAQ: OKTA), Palo Alto Networks (NYSE: PANW), Pandora (NYSE: P), Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG, Redfin (NASDAQ: RDFN) and Workday (NYSE: WDAY)."
Upcoming events (2)
See all- Paving the Road to Developer Velocity: How Internal Portals and Golden Paths EnaLink visible for attendees
Leading engineering organizations are rethinking how developers build, ship, and scale — not with more tools, but with better paved paths. Learn how execs are investing in internal developer platforms (IDPs) and standardized workflows to reduce friction, ship faster, and create happier, more productive teams.
Join us with expert speakers and fellow engineering leaders as we explore the organizational playbook for designing high-leverage Golden Paths and avoiding common pitfalls like ‘portal debt’.
Key Topics:
- Why leading organizations are investing in DevEx and IDPs, and what the ROI looks like
- How to balance governance with developer autonomy at scale
- How to avoid the build-trap and keep internal platforms from becoming legacy tech
- Lessons learned from execs who’ve gone through this transformation
You will be joining a tight group of engineering executives from companies such as Airbnb, Salesforce, Spotify, Dropbox, and JPMorgan Chase & Co. to share insights and challenges on this topic with our expert speakers.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Questions? Contact events@sfelc.com
We'd love you to join us - please click here (our community) to register！
- Roundtable: AI in Hiring: Benefits and ChallengesLink visible for attendees
Artificial intelligence is transforming hiring practices across industries, but with powerful tools come trade-offs. As engineering leaders, how do you leverage AI's potential while navigating the challenges it introduces to building high-performing teams?
Together, we'll explore:
- Efficiency gains through automated screening, candidate matching, and streamlined workflows
- Data-driven decision making that can uncover insights beyond traditional hiring methods
- Reducing human bias while being mindful of algorithmic fairness challenges
- Ethical considerations around privacy, transparency, and candidate experience
- Balancing AI tools with essential human judgment in final hiring decisions
Join Dmytro Savchenko, Vice President of Engineering at Kinesso and host of the Thoughtful Edge podcast, for an insightful discussion on navigating AI in technical hiring. With extensive experience in software engineering and leadership, Dmytro brings practical knowledge in building high-performing engineering teams.
Join Dmytro and fellow engineering leaders to rethink AI in hiring — with intention, impact, and the human touch that great teams are built on.We'd love you to join us - please click here (our new platform) to register！
