Engineering People Podcast

Wei Wei is the VP of Engineering at FreeWheel. He has been working at FreeWheel since 2007 (Comcast acquired FreeWheel in 2013). Wei played various roles in FreeWheel across Engineering, Client Services, and Business Operations in his 10-year tenure. Currently, he leads a Big Data Engineering team in New York to build a Cloud-based Linear Viewership data platform to help grow Comcast's advertising business and drive the unification of Linear and Digital advertising. Wei has been an active advocate of new technology such as Big Data and Cloud, and modern engineering practice such as CI/CD and Scaled Agile. Before joining FreeWheel, Wei attended Tsinghua University in Beijing, China for his Bachelor and Master Computer Science degrees. He moved to New York in 2011 during working for FreeWheel. Other interesting facts about Wei: Wei is an avid video gamer and board gamer who plays games on a daily basis. Wei also likes hiking. Half Dome and Grand Canyon Rim2Rim are two of his most memorable hikes.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/weiwei9/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/weiwei9

Prior to New Relic, Jim was the Chief Architect for the Wily Technology division of CA, where he was the technical lead for Introscope, an industry-leading web application performance monitoring solution. Prior to that, he was Chief Technology Officer for an internet-based trading system for the wholesale food industry. Jim also spent four years at Apple, Inc. and three years at Connectix Corporation working on virtualization technology. He holds an A.B. in Computer Science from Dartmouth College. https://www.linkedin.com/in/jim-gochee-b170911/

Craig brings over 15 years experience leading, contributing to, and growing engineering organizations in top SaaS technology companies. Craig joined SendGrid in early 2015 from Cisco where as the Senior Engineering Director, he most recently grew the organization from a small co-located startup to a team of 150 distributed engineers. In his 7 years at Cisco, Craig held multiple Senior Engineering roles across Mobility, Platform, and Messaging focusing on growth and scale while modernizing architectures and processes. Prior to its acquisition by Cisco, Craig successfully grew from Technical Lead to VP of Engineering for Jabber where he was responsible for all of engineering – client (both desktop and mobility), server, and quality assurance. https://www.linkedin.com/in/craig-kaes-04a06b5/

Dory Weiss is the VP of Engineering at nCino. She knows that the key to building industry-leading software teams is to devote as much energy to your people as you do to your tech. Dory joined nCino in 2013 and has helped the engineering team grow from 6 people to 80+. As a former educator, she is passionate about training and enabling others. She has served as an Assistant Professor of English at Earlham College and Education Coordinator for the University of Texas Software Analyst Training Program. https://twitter.com/doryweiss https://www.linkedin.com/in/doryweiss/

Dana Lawson is VP of Engineering at InVision, responsible for leading 25+ engineers as part of a platform engineering group covering DevOps, site reliability, and data services, in addition to the core product shared services. She has nearly 20 years of experience as a systems engineer and has technical skills spanning multiple disciplines.

Throughout her career, she has led many different teams and worn many hats to complement a product's lifecycle. As an individual contributor creating mobile applications to leading multiple teams that managed large-scale backend big data and infrastructure. With a true passion for people, she brings this mix of technology and fun to her leadership style.

Previously, she served as Director of Site Engineering at New Relic where during her three-year career she grew the site engineering team to over 50 engineers. During this time, she led the support and engineering teams through a successful IPO and shaped the engineering culture to be a thought-leader in its space. With a background in fine arts, she brings her creative vision to the engineering team at InVision, where technology meets design. https://www.linkedin.com/in/dglawson/

Hadi Hariri (@hhariri) has authored a couple of books, a few courses and has been speaking at industry events for over 15 years. Host to Talking Kotlin, he works at JetBrains leading the Developer Advocacy team and spends as much time as he can writing code.

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