Camille Fournier
where else to find them
website:https://elidedbranches.com
website:https://amzn.to/4eUz5zB
github:skamille
bluesky:skamille.themanagerswrath.com
x:skamille
linkedin:camille-fournier-9011812
speakerdeck:skamille
what they talk about
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where they keep going back
- The Lead Developer London2 editions2015–2017
- GOTO Chicago2 editions2014–2016
all 15 in the filters
on a stage with
- Christian McCarrickonce
- Ian Nowlandonce
- Lara Hoganonce
all 4 in the filters
who talks about the same things
- Randy Shoup32 talks
- Mercedes Bernard7 talks
- Denise Yu18 talks
- Lena Reinhard22 talks
- Sander Hoogendoorn35 talks
- Glenn Vanderburg15 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| "I Hate the Green Button" — Or How to Mess Up Your User Feedback… | BDX I/O 2025 | 2025-11-07 |
How to give useful, professional feedback on UI/UX mockups in agile teams by moving beyond simple "I like"/"I don’t like" reactions. The talk presents… | ||
| Common platform team mistakes and how to avoid them | PlatformCon 2025 Live Day NYC | 2025-06-26 |
Platform teams that survive and scale write meaningful software (not just run open source or hand out infra) and require operational ownership of critical… | ||
| Escaping the rewrite trap | LDX3 London 2025 | 2025-06-16 |
Organizations choose rearchitecting over full rewrites because rewrites routinely miss hidden behavior and fail — an 80% hackathon rewrite claim at Rent the… | ||
| Starting and Scaling a Platform Engineering Team | KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 | 2025-04-01 |
Recommendation: start a platform team when shared “glue” becomes a bottleneck around 50–250 engineers; platform work must combine software engineering… | ||
| Leading teams through times of uncertainty and upheaval | LeadDev Live 2020 | 2020-04-07 |
Panel reports concrete tactics: pick one team need like predictability, publish a clear cadence (weekly becomes three or four short check-ins during crisis)… | ||
| The Role of being Technical in Technical Leadership | try! Swift NYC 2017 | 2017-09-05 |
Argues that engineering management remains a technical job supported by concrete habits and roles: three core capabilities are debugging, empathy, and… | ||
| The role of being technical in technical leadership | Velocity 2017 | 2017-06-19 |
Engineering leaders need three concrete skills: deep debugging that separates root causes (motivation, process, legacy code, product handoffs) when a team is… | ||
| Building and Motivating Engineering Teams | Open Source Leadership Summit 2017 | 2017-02-14 |
Uses Google BigQuery to show 21.8 million active GitHub projects and contrasts hiring realities today; grows a team from 15 to 65 engineers and shifts… | ||
| The Elements of Scaling | The Lead Developer New York 2017 | 2017-02-13 |
Grows an engineering org from 15 to 65 engineers, rewrites a Drupal PHP monolith into a Ruby API front end, and cuts a brittle weekly release process that… | ||
| Building a High-Performance Team is Everyone's Job | GOTO Copenhagen 2016 | 2016-10-03 |
A startup migrates an old Drupal/PHP site into Java microservices, cuts deploy time from weekly multihour releases to daily deploys, and measures immediate… | ||
| The elements of scaling | RubyConf Colombia 2016 | 2016-09-02 |
Company scales from a 15–20 engineer startup through a systems rewrite from Drupal/PHP into Java services with a Ruby frontend, then cuts a four‑hour weekly… | ||
| Rebooting Culture | The Lead Developer 2016 | 2016-06-23 |
Runs a postmortem on a three‑year culture rebuild at Rent the Runway where an engineering org of ~15–20 devs hits a cultural segfault and recovers while later… | ||
| Building a High-Performance Team is Everyone's Job | GOTO Chicago 2016 | 2016-05-23 |
Rewrites move a Drupal/PHP storefront into Java microservices, replace git submodules with automation and feature flags, and reduce deploys from 4+ hours to… | ||
| Hopelessness and Confidence in Distributed Systems Design | Strange Loop 2015 | 2015-09-24 |
Built a synchronous distributed cache for risk analysis that shards data, runs on an Aul appliance with 216 cores for parallel reduction, and ships to… | ||
| Cloning yourself isn't an option | The Lead Developer London 2015 | 2015-09-10 |
The claim is concrete: stop trying to clone yourself (that only doubles output) and become a multiplier by teaching others, automating repeat work, and… | ||
| Data and Product and Tech, Oh My! | Strata + Hadoop World Conference in Barcelona 2014 | 2014-11-19 |
Rent the Runway describes a deployed product called Runway plus a Women like me matching feature that reduces 100,000 possible size/age/height/bust… | ||
| So You Want To Rewrite That... | GOTO Chicago 2014 | 2014-05-20 |
Platform begins as Drupal (launched 2009) and by 2011 is failing; a rewrite runs through 2013 and escalates into a fraught project where one reservation… | ||
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