Slack is Hiring: Meet Their Engineering Leaders
Tune in to meet a few of Slack’s engineering leaders, get the inside scoop on their culture, and find your place within the leading channel-based messaging platform. We're bringing you an exclusive peek into Slack’s engineering organization—a well-oiled machine that supports 8 million simultaneously connected users…
About this event
Tune in to meet a few of Slack’s engineering leaders, get the inside scoop on their culture, and find your place within the leading channel-based messaging platform.
We're bringing you an exclusive peek into Slack’s engineering organization—a well-oiled machine that supports 8 million simultaneously connected users per day, 650k+ custom apps and integrations actively used weekly, and 1.5 billion messages sent per month.
This event took place online Wednesday, April 28th from 3 PM - 4:30 PM ET (12 PM - 1:30 PM PT).
Agenda:
- 3:00 PM ET / 12:00 PM PT - PowerToFly Kickoff
- 3:05 PM ET / 12:05 PM PT - Welcome & Keynote Address from Holly Allen, Director of Engineering, Platform
- 3:15 PM ET / 12:15 PM PT - Tech Talk from Karen Nguyen, Senior Engineering Manager
- 3:25 PM ET / 12:25 PM PT - Panel Discussion Featuring:
- Karen Nguyen, Senior Engineering Manager
- Holly Allen, Director of Engineering, Platform
- Aanchal Jain, Senior Engineering Manager
- Ana Martinez, Senior Engineering Manager
- 4:00 PM ET / 1:00 PM PT - Breakout Sessions
- 4:30 PM ET / 1:30 PM PT - Event Concludes
About Slack Technologies, Inc.: Slack is the leading channel-based messaging platform that brings the right people, information, and tools together to get work done. From Fortune 100 companies to corner markets, millions of people around the world use Slack to connect their teams, unify their systems, and drive their business forward.
About PowerToFly: PowerToFly is a women-run startup that works with companies to identify skilled professionals they’d like to network with. Over the past few years, we’ve produced 1,000+ events across the world with brands like Facebook, Spotify, Microsoft, and Deloitte, which have resulted in countless hires.
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Meet the speakers
Karen Nguyen
Senior Engineering Manager
Karen Nguyen is a Senior Engineering Manager at Slack. She's been with the company for over two years, where she strives to build resilient teams, coach and mentor, and guide the company's technical vision. She's committed to building an inclusive culture that embraces different perspectives, experiences & backgrounds. Prior to Slack, Karen was the Senior Manager of Software Engineering at OpenTable.
Holly Allen
Director of Engineering, Platform
Holly Allen is the Director of Engineering for Platform at Slack. Her expertise lies in software development, infrastructure, team building, and people management. She first joined the company in February of 2018 as the Director of Engineering for Reliability and moved to the Platform team three months ago. Prior, Holly was the Director of Engineering at GSA.
Aanchal Jain
Senior Engineering Manager
Aanchal Jain is a Senior Engineering Manager at Slack. Her expertise lies in building highly scalable and available systems from scratch. Aanchal joined Slack 10 months ago after working as a Senior Engineering Manager at Quantcast.
Ana Martinez
Senior Engineering Manager
Ana Martinez is a Senior Engineering Manager at Slack. She is a big proponent for highly collaborative teams and has experience managing both platform and product facing teams. Prior to Slack, Ana was an Engineering Manager at Nerd Wallet. She's also held positions at Zendesk and Field Applications LLC.
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