The Art of Codebase Onboarding: A Leader's Toolkit to Unlock Team Potential

Ally works as the Head of Engineering of Personal Finance Management at NerdWallet, a platform that provides financial guidance to consumers and small and mid-sized businesses. She has spent the last several years supporting and growing engineering organizations with a focus on engineer career growth and team cohesion. She is an avid purveyor of functional programming, non-violent communication, and food travel. She lives in Oakland, California with her wife and two sons.

Douglas is a VP of Engineering at Guidewire Software, where he leads a combined team of Engineers, Data Scientists, and Analysts in delivering software and insights that transform the insurance industry. Douglas has built and grown distributed teams delivering deeply technical analytic solutions in both cybersecurity and insurance domains. A people-focused system thinker, Douglas aims to use Engineering leadership to help people become the best versions of themselves. Outside of engineering, Douglas is an MIT graduate, a hybrid athlete, a martial artist, a San Francisco native, and an absolute ailurophile (cat enthusiast).

Shanea Leven is the co-founder and CEO of CodeSee, a developer tool that helps developers and teams better onboard, refactor, and understand codebases. Prior to CodeSee, Shanea led teams that delivered high-quality products and features for leading companies including Google, Docker, eBay and Cloudflare.