When you move into management, your world changes.

When you get two teams, it shifts again. What happens when you have multiple teams of teams? How do you build, scale and, gulp survive supporting a 100+ person engineering team? How do you manage through other people when you’re so far removed from the action? How do you continue to find purpose and fulfillment when coding is not part of your job anymore ?

Recruiting. It’s the lifeblood of any technology leader.

But there’s another side of that coin: Retention. How do you retain the team you fought so hard to build? During this talk we’ll go over the worst case scenario: the majority of your team leaves in a short amount of time. How do you turn a crisis moment into a period of learning and growth?

I got started with development when I was really young and continued building a successful career over the next 25 years. Then a funny thing happened: I realized I wanted to do something different.

I wanted to evolve to do more than just another technology role, chasing the latest technologies and recruiting engineers. I started looking at other areas of the business. But how do I evolve into something different when it involves letting go of who I’ve been for the 25 years?