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9:30am PST

[Virtual] OPEN Session: Engineering Leadership - Stepping Up and Breaking Through

Thursday February 20, 2025 9:30am - 9:55am PST

Sumit Amar, WEX, Vice President of Engineering

This session is for aspiring engineering managers, and for seasoned engineering leaders looking to grow leadership muscle in their teams. This session will cover some practical advice on how to break into an engineering manager role, and outline expected behavioral and technical aspects to be successful. Session will cover aspects of stepping up, taking ownership, writing OKRs, and growing others regardless of reporting structure.

Speakers

Sumit Amar

Vice President of Engineering, WEX

Sumit leads global engineering teams for Mobility/Fleet systems at WEX as a VP of Engineering. Before joining WEX, Sumit worked at Amazon as a Sr Manager of Software Development leading B2B Cobrand Payments and AWS API Gateway Dataplane orgs.Sumit has a proven track record of delivering... Read More →

Thursday February 20, 2025 9:30am - 9:55am PST
VIRTUAL DeveloperWeek MAIN STAGE https://app.events.ringcentral.com/events/developerweek-productworld-ai-devworld-2025/reception

Dev Exec World

Tracks & Topics Dev Career, Technical Leadership & Management, Dev Leadership Certificate
Session Type OPEN Session
Conferences Dev Exec World, OPEN Session, Virtual
In-Person/Virtual Virtual