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Building a Culture Where Software Projects Get Done

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Summary

Greg Brockman shares Stripe's principles powering their software projects and the culture instilled to avoid the usual software engineering traps: failed rewrites, delayed timelines, etc.

Bio

Greg Brockman is Stripe's CTO. He has been helping build out Stripe's technology stack since joining as the second employee. He built the initial infrastructure powering the Stripe API and these days works primarily on scaling the team and architecture. Greg studied mathematics at Harvard and computer science at MIT.

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 05, 2013

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