Creating a great internal developer experience for your team

foreign I'd like you to welcome everybody here to our  awesome developer experience Meetup we've got a packed house today with all sorts of really  um interesting people lots of engineering   leaders and CTOs and Founders I've met a lot  of really interested people so far uh and up

here with me I have four amazing uh internet  Leaders with me today we're going to talk all   about the developer experience they all have deep  experience in teams leading teams uh leading big engineering teams so uh tonight we're going to be  talking all about things related to the internal   developer experience so the the experience of  developers building software at your company The end-to-end Experience uh building and shipping  and maintaining that software as your company so we're going to talk about like why it's important  and how to measure it and uh tools and tips and

and processes and techniques and things that  can help um and also I want to everybody to leave with some practical ways that you can  improve devex in your organizations and even   um Champion for the Improvement but how do you how  do you advocate for it how do you Champion for it so uh before we start let me introduce myself  along with our guests my name is John Laban I'm the CEO and co-founder of a company named  Ops level Ops level is an internal developer portal uh it is a um you know it's it's a way  for engineering teams to quickly build quality

software is what our Spiel is um so in a previous  slide just to tell you a little bit about myself I was an early engineer at Amazon and I left Amazon  with some friends who were founding a really tiny startup called PagerDuty and that was their first  engineer their first employee there and I went on   to do a bunch of things including uh running  engineering for a little while and um you know my experiences there led me to um found a startup  called OpsLevel with my co-founder Ken who's here

someone and um yeah we're what we're trying to do  is make engineering life better for all of your area Engineers on your engineering team so let's  uh let's introduce all of our awesome panelists today so uh first up we have John Kodumal  who is the CTO and co-founder of LaunchDarkly it's a feature management platform first of all  it lets uh developers push code continuously at their own pace and it lets um you know not having  to wait and coordinate with others so that's like

product teams and marketing teams uh be able  to run experiments and launch features on on their schedule as well um and then next we have  mouth uh Malte is uh the CTO of Vercel and Vercel is a is a front-end Cloud company and they're  also the maintainers of the next JS framework   so um you know Vercel it works to abstract the way  uh a lot of the complexity of deploying hosting previewing Distributing web applications you just  merged code and it takes care of the resting so

I'll take you know you've got a really large um  you know you're a fast growing engineering company sorry I got a bit of feedback but you've also uh  run engineering things like Google in the past as   well from what I understand so welcome um yeah  uh and next up we have uh Jason Jason Sobel so uh Jason is the CTO of the New York Times  which um you're probably all very familiar with this iconic you know company but they  also have a very large engineering team and

um you know Jason you're running engineering there  you're as a CTO but you've also enabling you've been enabling large engineering teams at other  companies really massive engineering companies uh   like uh Airbnb uh you're head of infrastructure  engineering there and uh head of infrastructure engineering and Facebook as well so that well  I I did not quite that good at this yeah I'm inflating the title there yeah I'll take it I'll  say hi I'm a CEO of Facebook for a little while