About this event
Join us for a conversation with Nora Jones (Founder & CEO of Jeli), Snir Kodesh (Head of Engineering at Retool), and Uma Chingunde (VP of Engineering at Render).
They'll be sharing how they think about team productivity, culture, and making their engineers happy. This jam-packed hour will be short on platitudes: we’ll dig into the details of what works and doesn’t, from the gory to the glorious. The chat will be hosted by RedMonk's KellyAnn Fitzpatrick.
Ahead of the event, explore the results from Retool's recent State of Engineering Time report, which asked 600+ engineers (both ICs and managers) how they spend their days, what makes them productive, and much more.
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Nora is the founder and CEO of Jeli, a dedicated and proactive incident analysis platform. Hailing from senior technical leadership roles at Netflix, Slack, Jet.com and Alarm.com, Nora is a software engineer whose most notable mark on the industry is Chaos Engineering. Throughout her research and experience she uncovered the need for a deeper understanding of incidents, and developed a passion for the intersection of software and people.
Snir is the Head of Engineering at Retool. Previously, he's led teams at all sorts and stages of companies, including Lyft, where he was a director of engineering. He also founded a startup (Hitch), which was sold to Lyft.
KellyAnn Fitzpatrick is a Senior Industry Analyst at RedMonk, the developer-focused industry analyst firm. Having previously worked as a QA analyst, test & release manager, and tech writer, she has experience with containers, CI/CD, testing frameworks, documentation, and training. She has also taught technical communication to computer science majors at the Georgia Institute of Technology as a Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow. Holding a Ph.D. in English from the University at Albany and a B.A. in English and Medieval Studies from the University of Notre Dame, KellyAnn’s side projects include teaching, speaking, and writing about medievalism (the ways that post-medieval societies reimagine or appropriate the Middle Ages), and running to/from donut shops
Uma is currently the VP of Engineering at Render, a unified cloud to build and run all your apps and websites. Previously, she led Stripe’s Compute group which managed all cloud operations for an exponentially-scaling payments stack.
