Scaling Your Leadership with the Needs of the Organization

Harold Giménez is Senior Vice President of Engineering at HashiCorp, where he has held various leadership roles spanning engineering and R&D. He currently leads all of Engineering, helping evolve infrastructure automation and security workflows for practitioners around the world. Prior to HashiCorp, Harold led technology at an early stage startup called Iterable, where he helped build the engineering, product, and design functions. Before that, Harold spent several years at Heroku, focusing on building data services.

Lawrence Bruhmuller is currently the SVP of Engineering at Great Expectations, the open source data quality solution used by thousands of data engineers in the industry. He has over 12 years of experience as an overall head of engineering, mostly focused on growth stage startups. Previous roles include CTO roles at Pave and Optimizely, and VPE roles at WeWork, ClearSlide, and Symantec.

Lawrence has been a part of small startups and also larger companies, and has developed products for individual users and also the world’s largest enterprises. In particular, he has focused on delivering cloud-first products in the B2B application and developer tooling spaces.

Lawrence is passionate about the intersection of engineering management and the growth stage of startups. He has written extensively on engineering leadership (https://lbruhmuller.medium.com/), including how to best evolve and mature engineering organizations before, during and after these growth phases. He enjoys advising and mentoring other engineering leaders in his spare time.

Lawrence holds a Bachelors in Mathematics and Engineering from Harvey Mudd College, and a Masters in Applied Mathematics from Claremont Graduate University. He lives in Oakland, California, with his wife Amy and their three daughters.