Passionate about computers from the very beginning, Ludovic programmed his first website when he was a kid and never stopped coding since. After having implemented distributed systems in Java, he became interested in deploying and operating these systems in production with a particular emphasis on observability. Ludovic has been working for several years as a Technical Architect to support organizations in adopting Cloud Native technologies such as Mesos/Marathon, Kubernetes, OpenFaas, and Istio. He is now leading an organization of 250 engineers as CTO and is driven to build a high-performing and collaborative engineering culture allowing teams and individuals to grow.
Three years ago, we expanded our engineering organization by incorporating 2 teams located on a different continent.
Suddenly, our organization had to adopt a new working style: juggling multiple time zones, dealing with increasing ambiguities, managing cultural differences while still delivering outcomes for our stakeholders. During this session, we will explore the difficulties we encountered in this scale-up phase. How did we restructure our teams? What were the impacts on velocity? What mistakes did we make along the way?
By the end of this presentation, you should have a good understanding of the key elements to successfully scale your technical organization across continents!
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