Dana Lawson

Dana Lawson

VP of Engineering

GitHub

GitHub

Dana Lawson has 20 years of experience as an engineer and engineering leader. She has worn many hats to complement a product's lifecycle through her leadership roles at Heptio, Invision, New Relic and GitHub where she currently serves as VP of Engineering. With a background in fine arts, she brings her creative vision to chart new waters and lead the engineering teams of the future.

Past Talks

17 June 2021

Continuous Delivery
Main Stage

By reducing the cost and complexity of enterprise software, No-Code has made it accessible to a lot of people.
Although, while simple to setup, it leaves security risks and a siloed system with no connected way of working. Sharing their different viewpoints, our panelists will discuss the pros and cons of no-code on the future of product delivery.

Guy Dvir
Guy Dvir

UX Prototyper

Editor X

Editor X
 
Dana Lawson
Dana Lawson

VP of Engineering

GitHub

GitHub
 
David Hoang
David Hoang

@davidhoang

Head of Design

Replit

Replit
 
Catherine Cornell
Catherine Cornell

Director of Product, Invest

Stash

Stash
 

5 October 2020

Continuous Delivery

Many of you have probably been told that microservices are the future for a great user experience and monoliths are dead, now go hurry up and update your architecture! If only it was that easy! This may bring up questions such as how you are going to make the change, when you can do it and why should you even go there?
In this session Dana will talk a little bit about the Why you should consider microservices and then dive into different ways to approach designing this architecture and the pitfalls and challenges to consider on your journey.

Dana Lawson
Dana Lawson

VP of Engineering

GitHub

GitHub
 

8 October 2019

Enabling the Team
Vision Stage

This exciting discussion looks at managing remote teams, outsourced dev teams, global talent shortage plus much more!

Shane Nolan
Shane Nolan

SVP Technology, Consumer & Business Services

IDA Ireland

IDA Ireland
 
Dana Lawson
Dana Lawson

VP of Engineering

GitHub

GitHub
 
Peter Coppinger
Peter Coppinger

CEO

Teamwork.com

Teamwork.com