Roundtable: How Slack DevXP uses Slack for Collaboration

Ever wonder how Slack uses Slack to build… Slack?

The team building Slack's developer tools uses their own product daily to solve complex collaboration challenges. What do they know that most engineering organizations don't?

In this roundtable, we'll explore firsthand insights into how Slack's DevXP team—responsible for the productivity of hundreds of engineers—structures their own workflows, rituals, and tooling.

We’ll dig into:

1. How DevXP engineers use Slack to cut down friction and surface the right info, fast
2. What’s working — and what isn’t — when collaborating across time zones and teams
3. Tactics for avoiding notification overload and channel sprawl
4. How internal practices have evolved as the team scaled

This isn’t a product pitch. It’s a real-world look at how a high-performing engineering org tackles developer productivity — using the same tools many of us rely on every day.

Meet Your Host

Sridhar Ramakrishnan is Senior Director of Developer Experience & Productivity at Slack. He leads an org of 90+ engineers and has spent the last 7+ years focused on DevXP. Sridhar is also a dedicated coach and mentor to engineering leaders scaling their own teams.

Outside work, he is busy taking care of his fruits and vegetables, and arguing metrics with his kids on life.

Join a candid conversation with your peers.See what tools and practices a team inside Slack uses to stay fast, focused, and aligned — and leave with ideas you can actually test with your own team.