Meri Williams
where else to find them
website:http://blog.geekmanager.co.uk
github:geekmanager
what they talk about
all 7 in the filters
where they keep going back
- LeadDev New York2 editions2022–2025
all 10 in the filters
on a stage with
never shared a talk
who talks about the same things
- Lena Reinhard22 talks
- Camille Fournier19 talks
- Denise Yu18 talks
- Melinda Seckington11 talks
- Jennifer Davis13 talks
- Allison McMillan13 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| Tackling tech debt | LeadDev New York 2025 | 2025-10-15 |
Advocates a concrete five step plan: visualize with DORA metrics and LinearB benchmarks, secure 50% time allocation and use API-first extraction from the… | ||
| Rethinking growing engineers in the age of AI | LDX3 London 2025 | 2025-06-16 |
Claim: entry-level hiring falls sharply — a 73.4% drop in starter hiring — as AI takes on traditional junior work, and other fields report real harms from… | ||
| Tackling tech debt | LeadDev Berlin 2024 | 2024-11-04 |
A concrete playbook: visualize tech debt with DORA metrics and tooling like Swarmer and LinearB, benchmark externally, secure sustained allocation of… | ||
| Driving technical excellence from the top: A case study in uplevelling | CTO Craft Con: London 2024 | 2024-05-08 |
Pleo decides to move a year-old node.js monolith to API-first and upskill ~200 engineers with hands-on coaching from Skil whell using live coding, diagnostic… | ||
| The CTO Journey So Far – How We Got Here, and Where Next? | CTO Craft Con: The Strategic CTO 2023 | 2023-05-23 |
Career path moves from corporate IT at Procter & Gamble into hyperscale startups and now a stable 250-person org, with past roles through Monzo, Moo and Helix… | ||
| 5 Things I Wish I'd Known Sooner About Scaling Teams | Craft Conference 2022 | 2022-06-02 |
Scaled teams often break in predictable ways: claims include growing from 30 to 300 in under a year and surviving 3x–10x jumps by focusing on concrete… | ||
| My Monolith is Melting: Lessons from Legacy | LeadDev New York 2022 | 2022-04-05 |
Claim: moved an SAP-led monolith from three releases a year that forced manufacturing stops to fortnightly releases with no downtime, cutting major/critical… | ||
| Minimum viable business continuity planning | LeadDev Live 2020 | 2020-04-07 |
Seven concrete practices cut risk: run dr. pepper sessions (scenario workshops) that list specific failure modes and acceptable recovery times; treat any… | ||
| The Lead Developer London 2018 Highlights | The Lead Developer London 2018 | 2018-07-02 |
Conference highlight reel from The Lead Developer UK 2018 shows crowd scenes, applause and brief soundbites but contains no concrete claims, no tools, no code… | ||
| Highlights | The Lead Developer UK 2017 | 2017-06-08 |
A two-day, single-track conference on 8 & 9 June is sold out and twice the size of the 2015 event, co-curated and chaired by Meri Williams. Sessions compile… | ||
| Leadership in an Ever-Changing Industry | Front-Trends 2016 | 2016-05-18 |
Argues that leadership’s job is to create space where people can be excellent, grounding advice in Gallup’s team predictors and Dan Pink’s motivation model… | ||
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