Rachel Nabors
Charity Majors
Naz Delam
Anna J McDougall
Bassem Dghaidi
Swizec Teller

June 15-19, 2024

7am PST / 10am EST / 4pm CET

Event about career growth, leadership

and seniority in tech

  • 2
    Tracks of talks
  • 20+
    Speakers sharing career tips
  • 5K+
    Engineers & tech leads attending

Helping developers to achieve career goals

Welcome to the conference about leadership and seniority in teams! 20 engineers, managers and HR from leading companies will give talks on topics as careers and soft skills. We'll discuss how to become more senior and get more influence in the company, get a promotion and achieve what you want in your career.

Enjoy talks and Q&As on June 15 from 4pm to 9pm CET. And join discussion rooms on June 19 from 4pm to 6pm CET. It's a remote event on both days.

This year TechLead Conference is part of the C3 Dev Festival. You can participate solely in TechLead Conference (online), or by engaging in the C3 Festival, you will also have access to TechLead Conference activities.

The following topics will be covered:
  • Career growth & security

  • Mastering interviews

  • Soft skills

  • Team/tech leadership

  • Horizontal/Full-stack growth

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Features

Awesome Speakers

High-quality talks from field experts

Networking

Join live chat rooms, meet new friends and new opportunities

Rachel Nabors

Charity Majors

Naz Delam

Anna J McDougall

Bassem Dghaidi

Swizec Teller

Tara Z. Manicsic

Anton Kazakov

Krasimir Tsonev

 Vanessa Raath

Remote and fun

Socialize at remote afterparties with online games

First Speakers

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Rachel Nabors
DevX consultant, USA
Talk: Managing Ourselves Managing Each Other
ex-React core and React Docs author
Charity Majors
honeycomb.io, USA

Charity is the co-founder and CTO of honeycomb.io, the O.G. observability platform. She is the co-author of Observability Engineering and Database Reliability Engineering (O'Reilly), and has worked at companies like Parse, Facebook and Linden Lab. She loves free speech, free software and single malt scotch, and writes about startups, technology and leadership at charity.wtf and twitter.com/mipsytipsy.

Naz Delam
LinkedIn, USA

Naz is a software engineering manager at LinkedIn and Technology Career Coach. She is passionate about UI Engineering, Career Development, and growth skills. Before LinkedIn, she worked at Netflix, leading Animation teams and in the Finance industry as a Software Architect. Naz is dedicated to advancing and growing the careers of many engineers across the world 🌎 . She is an active Career Coach on MentorCruise. She also volunteers with Hour of Code, teaching high school girls how to code, and serves as a member of MentorCruise and BuiltByGirls to coach engineers. You’ll likely find her exploring the world 🌱, playing games, or curled up with a good book and coffee when she's not working. 📚☕

Anna J McDougall
Director of Product and Engineering, Germany
Opera singer turned Director of Product, author "You Belong in Tech: How to Go from Zero Programming Knowledge to Hired"
Bassem Dghaidi
GitHub, Netherlands

Bassem Dghaidi enjoys solving hard problems in internet scale distributed systems and takes pride in abolishing organisational inefficiencies and adopting a cross-disciplined approach to problem solving. Bassem is a Senior Software Engineer at GitHub, where he is currently focused on building the next generation of GitHub Actions. With a career spanning over 15 years, Bassem worked across various industries, including TechEd, car manufacturing, FinTech, transportation and logistics. In a previous role, Bassem worked closely with some of the largest corporate customers and Fortune 500 companies as a trusted advisor. He helped these enterprises optimise their software development lifecycle and adopt DevOps best practices. Apart from his work at GitHub, Bassem is passionate about empowering the next generation of technologists. He was a founding member of SE Factory, a technical career accelerator that has become Lebanon’s leading training program for aspiring software engineers. Bassem is also an active podcaster and content creator sharing his technical and career-related insights on major social media platforms.

Swizec Teller
Tia, USA
Software engineer @ Tia
Tara Z. Manicsic
Netlify, USA

Tara Z. Manicsic has spent her career using JavaScript on both back-end and front-end to try to help make coding the web a happy place for devs. She is currently working to bring Angular into the Jamstack at Netlify as a Developer Experience Engineer. As an international technical speaker and workshop leader, she conveys all she has learned while delivering horrible jokes. Tara is a lifelong student, teacher, and maker (crafts, IoT projects, tiny humans, and more). She lives in a house down by the river and hopes to meet you soon!

Anton Kazakov
Canonical, Germany
Talk: Tiny Things That Throw You Into Chaos: Engineering Leader’s Way Out of Daily Havoc

Anton is an Engineering Director at Canonical (the publisher of Ubuntu). He's built and scaled teams, shaped tech organisations in the SaaS and B2C worlds. He has a passion for systemic approaches and helping people thrive and grow. He mentors other tech leaders helping their leadership journey go more quickly and smoothly. Outside of work, he enjoys hiking, mountain skiing, and family time.

Krasimir Tsonev
Antidote.me, Bulgaria
Talk: The Art of Interviewing People or How to Identify Senior Talent

Krasimir Tsonev is a coder with over 15 years of experience in web development. Author of books on JavaScript he works at Antidote.me where he helps people reaching clinical trials. Loves React and its ecosystem.

Vanessa Raath
The Talent Hunter, South Africa

Vanessa is globally renowned for her contributions to the international Sourcing Community. She has delivered keynotes across three continents and trained teams from Auckland to Seattle. Vanessa launched her Talent Sourcing Training business in early 2019 and has not looked back. She is a qualified teacher with experience in agency recruiting and internal talent acquisition (she loved both roles!). She now gets to combine her love of empowering others to do better, with her passion for recruiting through her own Online Academy. She loves it when her training delegates experience that ‘light bulb’ moment as she knows that she has just changed someone’s career, for the better. When Vanessa is not doing research for her training, recording content, or delivering a Keynote, you can find her at the Beach or in the South African Bushveld, taking photographs.

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Program Committee

Stefania Ioana Chiorean
CodeSandbox, Germany

Ioana is an engineer manager flavored in communities, and devrel, that has more than 12 years of experience in tech with a specialization in mobile apps and web. Besides her job at CodeSandbox, she dedicates her time to building tech communities and improving the access to education. She is the Module Owner for Mozilla Reps, one of the alumni of MozTechSpeakers, and stands as an ambassador for CodeWeek at the European Commission. In her free time, she contributes to Open Source and different volunteering programs, while enjoying a coffee or a good wine.

Mo Khazali
Theodo UK, UK

Mo is the Head of Mobile and a Tech Lead at Theodo UK, having worked on several projects with startups and established enterprises to create cross-platform mobile application in React Native. He's passionate about React Native, MobileDevOps, and pushing the boundaries of combining code across web and mobile.

Bruno Paulino
N26, Austria

Bruno is a passionate Software Engineer who loves crafting solutions that can help ease our lives and make it more fun. He is mainly interested in Web development, currently working with TypeScript, Elixir and React.

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