Building Distributed Teams with Jason Warner, CTO at GitHub
Speaker

Jason Warner is GitHub’s Chief Technology Officer. In his role, Jason oversees the Office of the CTO, whose mission is to explore the unknown and non-existent aspects of technology and software in order to build a map of GitHub’s future.
Jason was previously Senior Vice President of Technology at GitHub, where he has played an integral role in scaling the Engineering, Product, and Security Teams, and building GitHub’s product roadmap to fit the needs of developers around the world.
Prior to joining GitHub in 2017, Jason was Vice President of Engineering at Heroku. Before Heroku, Jason oversaw Product Engineering for Ubuntu Desktop and Ubuntu Phone at Canonical.
Jason is passionate about building technologies that bring people together, and he’s an active speaker, writer, and advisor.
SUMMARY
Every company is now a distributed company. Jason shares communication best practices he’s found, the signs of ineffective communication, and other effective protocols for leading a distributed team. He also identifies common challenges found in distributed teams as well as how to align, motivate, and manage your distributed team of engineers so that you can achieve the best results possible with your team.
