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Life on the Lonely Island of Engineering Leadership

Posted Apr 22, 2022 | Views 1K
# Spring Summit - 2022
# Collaboration
# Communication
# Change Management
# Cross-Functional Teams
# Distributed Teams
# Work-Life Balance
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Andrew Lau
CEO @ Jellyfish

Andrew Man-Hon Lau is Co-Founder and CEO of Jellyfish, the leading Engineering Management Platform (EMP) that provides complete visibility into engineering organizations, the work they do, and how they operate.

Prior to Jellyfish, Andrew was the Chief Strategy Officer for ad-tech leader Nanigans after his social retail-tech company LoopIt was acquired. He also previously helped create companies at Redstar Ventures. Andrew was VP Engineering and founding technology team member of Endeca Technologies, an enterprise search software company that was acquired by Oracle Technologies for over $1B. He also has experience at companies such as Microsoft and IBM.

Andrew holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a certified barbecue judge for the Kansas City Barbecue Society. He hails from Oakland, CA and is still an avid fan of the Oakland Athletics despite living in Red Sox country for over 20 years. He lives in Cambridge, MA with his wife Elsie and two young children Callie and Mira.

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SUMMARY

Engineering leadership can be a difficult and sometimes lonely job… But there are a few things you can do to make it easier! This session with Andrew Lau (CEO @ Jellyfish) & Patrick Gallagher (Head of Experience @ ELC) will cover the dynamics that often isolate eng leaders and important sources of internal & external support you can build. Plus they’ll share approaches & key conversations to help your cross-functional peers become more empathetic and better understand the world of engineering!

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