Distributed Teams and Successful Remote Engineering
Avleen Vig, Etsy, Inc
Over half of Etsy's Operations team are remote engineers, spread out between North America and Europe. Most individuals work from home, with little face time with other members of the team. This type of environment is growing more common as organisations look outside their local areas when hiring new staff, and potential employees leverage the current market to relocate out of major metropolitan areas.
Avleen will discuss the challenges faced by engineers, management, and organizations, and ways to address the issues to successfully build distributed teams.
Avleen is a Staff Operations Engineer at Etsy, where he spends much of his time growing the infrastructure for selling knitted gloves and cross-stitch periodic tables. Before joining Etsy, he worked at several large tech companies, including EarthLink and Google, as well as a number of small successful startups.
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author = {Avleen Vig},
title = {Distributed Teams and Successful Remote Engineering},
year = {2015},
address = {Dublin},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = may
}