What Google, eBay and WeWork Technology learned about Engineering Excellence?

Agenda:

18:00 - 18:30 - Meet and Greet: Snacks, Beer and Networking
18:30 - 18:45 - Intro from Yon Bergman, VP Engineering @ WeWork Technology, Israel
18:45 - 19:30 - Talk from Randy Shoup: Learning from Learnings: Anatomy of Three Incidents.
19:30 - 20:00 - Q&A

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IMPORTANT- if you plan on coming with a car, please read the
parking info we included below
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Main talk:

Learning from Learnings: Anatomy of Three Incidents:

The best response to a system outage is not "What did you do?", but "What did we learn?" This session will walk through three system-wide outages at Google, at Stitch Fix, and at WeWork—their incidents, aftermaths, and recoveries. In all cases, many things went right and a few went wrong; also in all cases, because of blameless cultures, we buckled down, learned a lot, and made substantial improvements in the systems for the future. Looking back with the perspective of 20-20 hindsight, all of these incidents were seminal events that changed the focus and trajectory of engineering at each organization. You will leave with a set of actionable suggestions in dealing with customers, engineering teams, and upper management. You will also enjoy a few war stories from the trenches, none of which has been previously told fully in public.

Speakers:

Yon Bergman, VP Engineering @ WeWork Technology:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/yonbergman/

Yon is an experienced software engineer and manager with an eye for design and a passion for building great products and teams. Focused on consistently improving and nurturing team culture and productivity, as well as empowering those around him.

Randy Shoup, VP Engineering @ WeWork:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/randyshoup/

Randy Shoup is a veteran of Silicon Valley, and has worked as a senior technology leader and executive at companies ranging from small startups to mid-sized places to eBay, Google, and Stitch Fix. Randy is currently VP Engineering at WeWork in San Francisco.

Earlier, Randy was Chief Engineer at eBay for 6 1/2 years, where he was responsible for multiple generations of eBay’s realtime search infrastructure. He was CTO and co-founder of a startup, and learned just how difficult and different it is to build a company from scratch. He was Director of Engineering at Google for Google App Engine, building and operating the world’s largest platform-as-a-service. He also spent a year and a half applying eBay and Google lessons consulting with startups and large enterprises on how to improve their organizations and technology.

He is particularly passionate about the nexus of culture, technology, and organization.

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Parking info:

If you are planning on coming with a car, there is a parking lot in the building (with a fee).
Due to the Light Rail constructions that are taking place at Menachem Begin street the parking lot entrance from this street is blocked. You will need to enter the parking lot from a different entrance (from Yigal Alon/Nahalat Yitshak streets)- turn to Yehuda and Noah Mozes street, then take a right turn and continue with the curve left into Midtown parking lot (Mozes entrance).

Take the elevators to floor 0. To your right, there will be another set of elevators you can take to the 50th floor.