Engineering Execution is a Strategic Weapon
Speakers

Bill Coughran works as a founders' coach and partner at Sequoia Capital to help build spectacular technology-centric companies. Previously, Bill was Senior Vice President of Engineering at Google with oversight of Chrome, YouTube, maps, google.com, underlying infrastructure systems, and security.

Melody Meckfessel is the CTO and Founder of an AI startup. Previously, she was CTO of Jasper.ai, building multi-agent systems and a context layer for enterprise marketing. She also co-founded and served as CEO of Observable, a collaborative data visualization platform. Melody spent over a decade at Google as VP of Engineering, leading core infrastructure, search, and DevOps teams that impacted millions of developers worldwide.
SUMMARY
In this fireside chat, Bill Coughran and Melody Meckfessel discuss different dynamics to help your engineering org become a strategic advantage to your company. They’ll cover how to leverage feature/system “simplicity,”how to weigh when you should bring insights into your product usage, when to strategically bring in SREs, and how to balance tech debt and refactor work.
