Jayne Mast
Engineering Manager @ quantilope
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Jayne is an Engineer Manager at quantilope, based in The Netherlands. She has worked as a front-end developer for over 15 years before taking the step into management, where she now helps people grow their career in a way she wanted to be helped, with patience and empathy.
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The Dungeon Master’s Guide to Managing Engineers
Ever had an engineer go rogue? Disappear down a rabbit hole of technical debt? Insist on using a "homebrew" solution to a critical problem? If so, you might be leading a party of Tabaxi! This lighthearted talk explores the unexpected lessons a Dungeon Master learned about managing engineers, from embracing their individual strengths (and eccentricities), to navigate interpersonal conflicts (like who gets the magical sword of code ownership!), and fostering a sense of shared purpose (and loot!). Come discover how a DM's toolkit can help you wrangle your team and achieve epic projects!
The Reasonable Developer
In the 1800s, an astronomer came up with the definition of "L’Homme Moyen", the average man. His studies, on the way the average person behaves, are still being used in legal trials today to determine whether someone’s action was reasonable. They call this The Reasonable Person Standard.
As developers, we make ethical decisions almost on a daily basis. Most of them are subconscious. And with machine learning, we’re even training machines to make ethical decisions. But a lot of the time, we ignore the ethical dilemmas and go for the easiest, fastest route. It's time to think about our responsibilities and how a reasonable developer would behave.
jQuery is not dead, and that’s fine
At conferences, we show the latest and greatest tech and often laugh about older technologies. But people still use these tools and frameworks, and shaming them is harmful to the community. In this talk, I want to share my own personal story of how I got confronted with gatekeeping and elitism, how it affected my confidence, and what we can all do to avoid this.
Un-bro you culture
The bro culture is forever present on our work floor. Maybe you notice it, perhaps you don't. But it's not surprising that it's still there if you look at the history of software development. So how do you recognise it? And what can you do about it to change it?
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