Lee Parham
Senior Software Developer - Shopify Inc.
Little Rock, Arkansas, United States
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Lee is a software developer for Shopify. Previously he worked with both fin-tech and ed-tech firms He believes in the power of software to make the world a better place. He currently lives in Little Rock, Arkansas.
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Self Taught or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Unconventional Choice
When there are a large array of known options for bringing qualified engineers onto a team, why would anyone want to consider a self-taught, zero-experience music major? What's the value to the bottom line hiring someone that will need a lot of mentoring? How does a person that can barely spell string interpolation contribute to a codebase?
With the explosion of distributed teams, and the possibility employing anyone living anywhere, there can be unexpected surprises and successes in considering less traditional developers. This session will provide a different perspective to those building a team and hope with a healthy dose of warning to those looking to get their foot in the door.
Building Engineering Culture: Moving from Brittleness to Resilience
The code is written, the code is "reviewed" and now it's time to deploy. Are you scared something will go wrong? Uh-oh, the business is reporting a page crashes, here's another wasted day trying to figure out why. We've all been on teams where nothing seems to be going in the right direction, or where deploying anything is a huge achievement.
This session will use past experiences as a case study on building an engineering organization the business can be proud of. We'll examine common pitfalls and stumbling blocks, relive horror stories of outages, and come out the other side ready to magnify the contributions our code and people produce.
Lee Parham
Senior Software Developer - Shopify Inc.
Little Rock, Arkansas, United States
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