Helen Slone
Software Engineering Team Lead
London, United Kingdom
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I am a software engineer based in Cambridge, United Kingdom. I have been working in Software Engineering since 2008, and as a Team Lead since 2020. My current role is at Flagstone, a cash deposit platform. Before moving into Software Engineering, I was a Secondary School (High School) teacher, and before that I was a scientist in the Steel Industry. I hold a degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Imperial College London. These days I am a recovering Front End Engineer moving into the AI Engineering space.
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The Accidental Engineering Manager
In 2020, following a quick phone call about a successful POC, I walked into standup believing I was the team’s new Tech Lead. Instead, I discovered I had unknowingly accepted a role managing the 8 engineers I had just been bantering with an hour earlier.
Strong technical execution is the very thing that gets engineers promoted, yet it does nothing to equip them to manage direct reports, handle conflict, or navigate complex stakeholder relationships. This talk skips the abstract management theory to look directly at the structural skills gap created when engineers become managers. I will walk through what changes when you make this leap.
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