Executive Track

Metrics that Matter:
Data for Product & Engineering Success

Understanding and utilizing the right metrics is essential for engineering leaders to drive both product and team success. This panel, featuring Kathryn, Hersh, Jan, and Lizzie, will provide an in-depth exploration of the key metrics that should be prioritized to ensure effectiveness and efficiency. The discussion will cover essential metrics for measuring and communicating developer productivity, offering insights into how these metrics can inform better decision-making and performance evaluation.

Beyond developer productivity, the panel will also address critical business and organizational metrics that every engineering leader should be tracking and reporting on. By examining what should and shouldn’t be measured, the panelists will help you identify which data points are most valuable for assessing overall success and guiding strategic initiatives. This session aims to equip you with the tools to leverage data effectively, driving meaningful results in both product development and organizational performance.

SPEAKER
SPEAKER

Kathryn Koehler

DIRECTOR OF ENGINEERING NETFLIX

Kathryn Koehler is the Director of Productivity Engineering at Netflix. Her teams focus on the development environment and associated experiences, which enable and empower developers at Netflix to bootstrap, code, build, test, debug, and maintain software more effectively and efficiently. Before Netflix, she was the VP of Engineering for the Science Initiative at Chan Zuckerberg (CZI), where her teams built applications, tools, and platforms for biomedical researchers to accelerate scientific discovery. She has worked in various areas, including productivity, entertainment, gaming, automotive, and finance. She enjoys people leadership and creating environments where everyone can do their best work. Kathryn also serves as a mentor and coach for leaders within the tech industry. Off the job, you can find her railing against social media, biking, running, or embarrassing her two adult children. She holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University, a degree she uses solely to fix cars and bicycles or assemble furniture.

SPEAKER
SPEAKER

Hersh Tapadia

CEO & CO-FOUNDER ALLSTACKS

Hersh Tapadia is the co-founder and CEO of Allstacks, the first software engineering intelligence and predictive forecasting platform for software development. He has spent his career leading product and software engineering teams in various disciplines, including SaaS, Pharma, Medical Devices, and Supply Chain. Previously, he co-founded several ventures, including Ravioli Labs, an ML-driven software consulting firm, CertiRx, an anti-counterfeiting solution for supply chain, and medCount, a medical device for infectious disease diagnostics. Hersh is a native of Raleigh, NC, and is an Electrical and Biomedical Engineer with degrees from NC State and Duke.

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SPEAKER

Lizzie Matusov

CEO & CO-FOUNDER QUOTIENT

Lizzie Matusov is the co-founder and CEO of Quotient, a toolkit that uses research to improve engineering teams’ most important processes. Prior to Quotient, Lizzie built software to improve access to medical-grade genetic testing at Invitae, and built web applications and deployment pipelines for numerous companies across industries at Red Hat. She holds a bachelor of science from UCLA, and an MBA and Masters of Engineering Sciences from Harvard.

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SPEAKER

Jan Chong

VPE TALLY

Jan Chong was most recently the Vice President of Engineering at Tally, a financial automation startup based in San Francisco, where she led the company’s client engineering, infrastructure, security, and technical operations teams. Before joining Tally, Jan was a Senior Director of Engineering at Twitter, where she played a critical role in launching and scaling Twitter’s core mobile and web products. Jan led the charge in overhauling the entire engineering hiring process, as well as founding womEM, a support and peer mentorship group for female engineering managers. She holds a BS, MS in Computer Science, and a Ph.D. in Management Science & Engineering from Stanford University.