Name: KEYNOTE (Leadership): Stealth Startup -- Rapid Decisions, Rapid Deployment: Transforming Delivery Through Empowerment
Start: 2025-05-28T11:00:00-0700
End: 2025-05-28T11:25:00-0700

Wednesday May 28, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PDT

DeveloperWeek Leadership Main Stage

Vilas Veeraraghavan, Stealth startup, Technical Leader

Platform teams tend to start out being lean but tend to slowly lose agility as they grow and expand their scope. This typically results in delayed rollouts of tools and other enablement needs that Dev teams have. However, these delays in decision making in critical tooling development within DevEx or Platform teams results in developer frustration and slows down delivery to the end customer (which impacts revenue). In my past life as a leader of Dev Platforms, I have experienced this and developed some techniques to prevent this slowdown over time. I have seen how distributing the decision making using engineering rigor allows DevEx/Platform teams to empower themselves and drive outcomes. In this talk, I will share the framework I have honed over years of leadership at Comcast, Netflix, Walmart and Bill with the audience. The framework relies on 4 key pillars - Always lead with data/reasoning, Know the business needs, Own and invest in your decisions, Empathize with the developer.

This talk will equip engineering leaders with a tool to create effective delivery enablement within their engineering organizations.

Speakers

Vilas Veeraraghavan

Technical Leader, Stealth startup

Strong technical leader with 15+ years of demonstrated history of success in building and scaling high performing engineering teams in global tech organizations. Passionate about building Resilient distributed systems at Scale.Expertise in Hybrid cloud deployments (AWS, Azure, GCP... Read More →

Wednesday May 28, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PDT
DeveloperWeek Leadership Main Stage

5. KEYNOTES & FEATURED

Additional Topics Engineering Culture, Technical Decision Making, Learning and Development, AI Ethics and Bias
Session Type OPEN Session
Tracks DeveloperWeek Leadership, Strategy / Methodology & Tooling (DeveloperWeek Leadership), OPEN Session, Career Development: Impact & Change (DeveloperWeek Leadership)
In-Person/Virtual In Person

AI DevSummit 2025 + DeveloperWeek Leadership 2025

Vilas Veeraraghavan

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