Uploaded November 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago
Learn from Chris Slowe and Shadi Rostami.
Chris is CTO and Founding Engineer of Reddit. The final years of his Ph.D. were concurrent with him breaking into startups and getting accepted to the first YCombinator class, where he subsequently met Steve and Alexis and became Reddit's first employee five months into the company. After five years at Reddit, he left with Steve to work on Hipmunk as Chief Scientist. He's now been back at Reddit since 2015.
Shadi is a senior/executive VP of engineering at Amplitude. Prior to Amplitude, she was VP of engineering at Palo Alto Networks. She has innovated and delivered several product lines and services specializing in Distributed Systems, Cloud Computing, Big Data, Machine learning, and Security.
These talks are organized by Plato (www.platohq.com).
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Learn from Chris Slowe and Shadi Rostami.
Chris is CTO and Founding Engineer of Reddit. The final years of his Ph.D. were concurrent with him breaking into startups and getting accepted to the first YCombinator class, where he subsequently met Steve and Alexis and became Reddit's first employee five months into the company. After five years at Reddit, he left with Steve to work on Hipmunk as Chief Scientist. He's now been back at Reddit since 2015.
Shadi is a senior/executive VP of engineering at Amplitude. Prior to Amplitude, she was VP of engineering at Palo Alto Networks. She has innovated and delivered several product lines and services specializing in Distributed Systems, Cloud Computing, Big Data, Machine learning, and Security.
These talks are organized by Plato (www.platohq.com).
Plato is on a mission to help Engineers become great Engineering Leaders thanks to a community of Mentors from top companies such as Google, Facebook, Lyft, Slack, Trello, Netflix, Spotify, Digital Ocean, Segment, Uber...
Sign-up to meet a mentor: platohq.com
