The Product-Minded Engineer: Building the Right Solutions for Your Users - Drew Hoskins
Hoskins, Drew: - Formerly a senior staff-level engineer, Drew Hoskins has built a wide range of innovative products and platforms for world-class software companies Microsoft, Meta, and Stripe. He invented and built internal platforms like Meta's main ORM, EntSchema, and the workhorse of Stripe's asynchronous services, Workflow Engine. He also made critical contributions to Stripe's massive Connect product and Oculus's store and developer platform. And he improved Stripe's API Review, the process which is a key reason why Stripe's APIs are renowned. Throughout, he has excelled at inventing new products, establishing product market fit, and delighting his customers. He has most recently switched to a product manager role, and is at Temporal Technologies, an innovator in distributed systems, engaging with their awesome community and guiding their core product.