Driving Sustainability with Delivery Engineering

Room 5

15:00 - 16:00

(UTC+02)

Talk (60 min)

Thursday

Engineering organizations often suffer from building software in a way that prioritizes short-term gains over long-term ones. This has a lot of sociotechnical consequences, including tech debt, retention issues, etc. This talk focuses on how Delivery Engineering can drive sustainability through its DevOps based principles and scalable technical practices.

Continuous Delivery

DevOps

For example, we’ll review how standardization can drive sustainability and provide examples. By the end, these principles and practices will tie together to form a concrete case study on how organizations can benefit from Delivery Engineering teams.

Lesley Cordero

Lesley Cordero is currently a Staff Software Engineer, Tech Lead at The New York Times. She has spent the majority of her career on edtech teams as an engineer, including Google for Education and other edtech startups.

In her current role, she is focused on observability, shared platforms, and building excellent teams by setting reliability vision & strategy across The Times, improving our observability footprint, and cultivating culture that builds with the most vulnerable employees in mind first. She shows care for others by holding them accountable to the best versions of themselves – and by buying them the occasional bubble tea.