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Vision & Strategy - Epiphanies of a Netflix Leader

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Summary

Josh Evans explores the concepts of vision and strategy - tools that business and technical leaders alike leverage to make tough decisions and smart bets that lead to breakout success. Using Netflix as a case study he explores how these tools were used to drive bold initiatives resulting in significant business growth and competitive barriers.

Bio

Josh Evans is a 17-year Netflix veteran with experience spanning e-commerce, streaming, infrastructure, DevOps, & SRE. In Josh's last role at Netflix he drove improvements to reliability, performance, and engineering velocity. Josh has recently joined GitHub as Senior Director of Platform Service Engineering. His charter is to build services to help transform software development as we know it.

About the conference

Software is changing the world. QCon empowers software development by facilitating the spread of knowledge and innovation in the developer community. A practitioner-driven conference, QCon is designed for technical team leads, architects, engineering directors, and project managers who influence innovation in their teams.

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Dec 02, 2017

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