title	conference	date
Leading sustainably when everything is on fire	LeadDev New York 2025	2025-10-15
Claim: surviving layoffs and scarcity requires treating influence as a scarce currency and deliberately building political capital (ship value, cultivate… Talk on
Level up the whole party, not just the hero	LeadDev Berlin 2024	2024-11-04
Argues that managers decide growth by concrete daily choices and shows how to do it: measure expertise as cursed knowledge, use proximal development and… Talk on
Navigating engineering leadership through the pandemic and beyond	LeadDev New York 2022	2022-04-05
Argues that Jane Jacobs' urban rules map directly onto codebases: shorter “blocks” (more touchpoints) increase collaboration, mixed-use surroundings… Talk on
Level up your code reviews	LeadDev New York 2022	2022-04-05
Four concrete lenses guide code review: readability lens (look for intention-revealing names, PR descriptions, tests-as-docs), perf/scale lens (ask about… Talk on
The Power of Visual Narrative	RailsConf 2021	2021-04-12
Argues that drawing technical updates wins attention: switching email updates to sketchnotes increases opens and results in fewer interruptions from teams… Talk on
Why Are Distributed Systems so Hard?	GOTO Chicago 2020	2020-04-27
History of scaling from single database to cloud driven horizontal sharding frames why network partitions are inevitable and why perfect consensus is… Talk on
Lightning Talks	LISA19	2019-10-28
Twenty-minute rapid-fire claims and demos: a 20-year Linux-on-mainframe history with free Linux VMs on z/architecture and KVM support; a hiring postmortem of… Lightning
Why Are Distributed Systems So Hard?	LISA19	2019-10-28
Explains why partitions are inevitable, cites Google data showing 5 rack failures, 3 router failures, 8 network maintenances in a cluster’s first year, and… Talk on
Let’s build sustainable and empathetic cross-functional teams	Agile on the Beach 2019	2019-07-11
Advocates concrete steps to make cross-functional teams sustainable: adopt the balanced team mindset where outcome ownership is shared, use calendar open… Talk on
Intro to Test-Driven Development in Go	GoCon Canada 2019	2019-05-31
Shows a concrete red green refactor workflow in Go: start with a failing test for a hello(name) function, hard‑code to pass, then generalize and refactor; uses… Talk on
Feedback Week	DevOps Days Toronto 2019	2019-05-29
Video from Toronto's DevOps Days 2019 conference Day 1 Ignite Talk Denise Yu, Senior Software Engineer, Pivotal Feedback Week, An Experiment In Empathetic… Talk on
Why Empathy Matters in Open Source Software Development	Cloud Foundry Summit North America 2019	2019-04-02
Argues that empathy is a set of actionable verbs — interviewing users, validating assumptions, and making newcomer UX welcoming — not a vague ideal; recommends… Talk on
It’s Dangerous to Go Alone! Lessons Learnt from Onboarding New Cloud...	Cloud Foundry Summit North America 2019	2019-04-02
A one-week Onboarding Week ritual gives new cloud platform engineers a hands-on backlog of deploy tasks, daily standups, whiteboard architecture sessions and… Talk on
Diversity Luncheon	Cloud Foundry Summit North America 2019	2019-04-02
Luncheon strings short talks and a panel with concrete takeaways: a claim that the summit doubled women and non-binary attendance since last April and now hits… Talk on
Why Are Distributed Systems So Hard?	SREcon19 Americas	2019-03-25
A clear account of why partitions are inevitable: networks fail hardware and software with examples like five rack failures, three router failures, and eight… Talk on
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