Hi All,
On* 5, December 2019, 8 PM UTC*, we'll welcome Camille Fournier for a
special edition of Wikimedia Tech talks! Camille will share insights from
her career and discuss her book, “The Manager’s Path: A Guide for Tech
Leaders Navigating Growth and Change
<https://www.amazon.com/Managers-Path-Leaders-Navigating-Growth-ebook/dp/B06XP3GJ7F/ref=la_B06XFMDTBZ_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1493322935&sr=1-1>
.”
Camille Fournier is the head of Platform Engineering at Two Sigma, a
financial company in New York City. Prior to joining Two Sigma, she was
the Chief Technology Officer of Rent the Runway
<https://www.renttherunway.com/>, a transformative brand that offers
unprecedented access to designer fashion, disrupting the way millions of
women get dressed.
She is an Open Source contributor and project committee member for both
Apache ZooKeeper and the Dropwizard web framework. Prior to working for
Rent the Runway, Camille served as a software engineer at Microsoft, and
most recently, spent several years as a technical specialist at Goldman
Sachs, creating distributed systems for managing risk analysis and firmwide
infrastructure.
She has a BS in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University and an MS
in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Camille is a
well-respected voice within the tech community, speaking on a variety of
topics such as engineering leadership, distributed systems, scaling teams,
and technical architecture.
You can view the talk live and ask questions here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNtFUt0vR58
Questions will also be taken through #wikimedia-office IRC
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Kindly,
Sarah R. Rodlund
Technical Writer, Developer Advocacy
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Developer_Advocacy>
srodlund(a)wikimedia.org