James Whitaker
Chief Technology Officer · Kestrel Logistics
Speaker
About
James Whitaker is CTO of Kestrel Logistics, where engineering has grown from 15 to 180 people in four years. He has run distributed teams across five time zones since long before it was fashionable.
James gives Tuesday’s talk on scaling engineering teams and speaks in the Leadership & Teams stream.
Sessions
On the programme
Day 3 · 11:30 am – 12:15 pm
Talk: Engineering Teams That Scale Past 100
Day 3 · 2:00 pm – 2:35 pm
Remote Teams Across Five Time Zones
See you at The Foundry
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