Rebecca Murphey - SeattleJS Conference 2017
summary
Starts as a team of one and builds a front-end practice with concrete wins: ties work to mission using page speed as a KPI, uses Webpack/Babel/React tooling to outfit 80–90 interns with one third becoming front-end advocates, creates a component library that fails to spread because UX and product don’t align, and shaves seconds off median render time for search in India. Scales to ~8–10 engineers plus a product manager, learns to prioritize, say no, and rely on a sponsor.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:15Welcome
- 3:17My story
- 5:41Minority
- 6:18Lessons
- 7:20Sponsor
- 8:46Switching jobs
- 12:38Datadriven work
- 17:58Frontend engineering
- 20:57Indeed University
- 24:04This is a hard lesson
- 25:53Make some people sad
- 28:01Refocus your energies
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