Katie Womersley

@katie_womers

Director of Engineering O’Reilly author (she/her) I love it when you flourish✨ I'm hiring! 👉🏼 👩🏽‍💻

Vancouver, BC (from Cape Town)
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Joined November 2010
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    Sep 21

    I had a BLAST talking at today! Here are my slides with links to awesome resources for being an authentic leader

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    Oct 7

    If you're an engineering leader, never forget your job is to get your team delivering utility (to users for product teams, internal teams for infrastructure). There are things - like culture! Process! - that help, but they are valuable only in what they enable, not inherently.

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    Oct 6

    Have you seen our speaker line-up for ? Check out our website to find out more about our speakers, including , , and 🤩

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    Oct 4

    From designer at comes 🎯 A minimal way to plot out tasks and block in calendar activities. 📽️ I've done a first impressions review here: 🌟 And... you can check them out on :

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  5. Oct 2

    Lots of folks ask me how we do collaborate and have fun being a 100% remote team? Our latest experiment was a fully remote hackathon. It worked super well! Here's exactly how we did it (and what we shipped) 🚀

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    Oct 2

    Ever been told that you should be “more strategic?” WTF does that mean? Topic of my latest article: “How to be Strategic”

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    Sep 30

    Tonight, Canada and the United States reached an agreement, alongside Mexico, on a new and modern trade agreement, called the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (). Read the statement:

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    Oct 1

    Did you even grow up in Africa if you don’t recognize this print?

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    Sep 29

    More of my colleagues and peers in software need to grok the importance of this. THIS is the core tenet of - if you truly want to grasp real threads to pull on, to make progress in this field...keep re-reading.

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  10. Oct 1

    I really love this post from , our aweome mobile lead, about the 4 things he learned becoming a manager —

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    Sep 27

    We migrated 's main production database 1 week ago for the first time in years while simultaneously jumping from Mongo 2.4 to 3.4. We've seen a 70% reduction in disk usage now w/ WiredTiger and solid performance gains as one might assume 😁 4TB 🗜️➡️ 1.2TB

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  12. Sep 27

    🎉 I’m super excited to speak at about building remote eng teams! 🌍 It’s my absolute fav conference. Come join me

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    Sep 27

    "One in five women and one in 13 men will be sexually assaulted at some point during their college career in the United States. Less than 10 percent will ever report their assault to their school or to the police."

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    Sep 22

    There's been a lot of talk about sexual assault in the news recently. If the news is triggering, take time away from social media. Text a trained Crisis Counselor at 741741. We're here to support you. We believe you.

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    Sep 25

    In case you missed it: Buffer has bought out several of our investors, specifically VCs from our Series A in 2014. We completed this ~2 months ago, spending $3.3m to buy back stock. I wrote up how we came to the decision and the steps to carry it out:

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    Sep 22
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    These moments of vulnerability & realness are so valuable. I loved ’ talk, her competent blue vibe radiating even if that’s not her most natural. 🌈 leadership colors . Also fabulous getting to meet you, !

    I’ve been mulling over leadership and authenticity lately, and I love what has to say: (also her slides are 😍 💯 )
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  17. Sep 21

    “Should I prioritize this partner ahead of my other work? What will make this partnership valuable? These are good questions to ask to succeed at a startup that might b getting acquired”

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  18. Sep 21

    “Diligence ahead of getting acquired looks like: meetings with key staff, senior people OOO, requests for tech docs, hiring freezes. Leaking acquisition info can scrap the deal, so there’s a legal obligation to not disclose”

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  19. Sep 21

    “As an eng manager at a VC funded startup, you’re building software as a business that needs to raise funding to continue. To explain this to your team, explain how VCs work”

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  20. Sep 21

    “VCs are also susceptible to trends, or integrations to increase user base or get a known brand onto the pitch deck and attracting strategic investors”

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  21. Sep 21

    “Engineering is responsible for building the things so it’s important to understand why you’re coming under pressure to move fast or hack together features. Hitting milestones affects ability to raise money”

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