How Estée Lauder scales strong engineering culture | Big Ideas In App Architecture #podcast

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Meg Adams has had a remarkable journey to tech leader — from special education teacher, to retail sales manager at Victoria’s Secret and learning to code, to managing teams at Etsy at Condé Nast — and now, her current role as Executive Director of Platform Engineering at Estée Lauder. To learn about her approaches to leadership, the intricacies of managing cloud infrastructure and analytics, and what it takes to build powerful platforms and top-tier teams, our host David Joy catches Meg for a first-ever in-person recording for our tech podcast. Join as we discuss: ✔️ Implementing engineering best practices and testing to ensure uptime and performance on a singular platform. ✔️ The pivotal shift from on-premises infrastructure to the cloud for ease of use and scalability. ✔️ Career advice from Meg’s incredible journey into the tech world. 00:00 Welcome 00:59 Meg's role at Estée Lauder 02:36 Meg's journey from teacher to Platform Engineer 06:47 Being a leader at Estée Lauder 08:02 What types of technical projects are worked on at Estée Lauder? 10:38 The change management process in software engineering 12:09 Multi-cloud strategies and building autonomous, empowered teams 15:20 Building infrastructure that can survive Black Friday or a Rihanna shoutout on Tiktok 16:41 Best practices around performance and load testing for resiliency and scale 18:26 What advice would Meg give to a young Meg? 20:34 Meg's leadership philosophies 22:58 How to approach feedback 25:12 Would you rather? (Engineering Leader Edition) 28:28 Meg's migration stories 31:53 How should you approach turning developers into leaders 33:28 Advice for navigating the tech world Big Ideas In App Architecture presented by Cockroach Labs is podcast for software architects and software engineers who are building modern, data-intensive applications and systems. In each weekly episode, an innovator joins host David Joy to share useful insights from their experiences building reliable, scalable, maintainable systems. You can listen and subscribe at https://cockroa.ch/3PVpT2S #platformengineering #softwareengineering #techpodcast