Mike McGarr is an engineering leader who resides in the heart of Silicon Valley. Mike currently leads Slack’s (opens in a new tab) Frontend Infrastructure team, focused on building a great JavaScript client. Prior to Slack, Mike lead Netflix’s (opens in a new tab) Developer Productivity team, who was focused on building tools and services to make engineers at Netflix productive. Mike is also one of the founders and co-organizers of the Productivity Engineering Silicon Valley (opens in a new tab) meetup. Mike also had a brief stint as a co-host on the popular podcast, the Ship Show Podcast (opens in a new tab). Prior to moving to the valley, Mike was hard at work in Washington D.C. building software solutions for the federal government. You can catch Mike riding his bike or speaking at conferences about technology and how make engineering organizations more effective.
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