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Track Talk W16

HIGH FIBER COUNT – Weaving Quality into the Organizational Fabric

Amir Shani

15:15-16:00 CEST Wednesday 14th June

Organizational culture does not develop in a linear fashion, nor does it evolve in isolated pillars.

Organizational culture is weaved together from many interwinding strands. It’s the way we recruit, the way we handle our daily meetings, the way we advertise ourselves. It’s the way we handle crisis, or change, or conflict. It’s how we design our offices and how we design our swag. It’s how we converse with each other, and how we communicate our wins and losses.

I joined Facebook when it was a 60,000+ people company; most of these were R&D staff. I was the 21st QA Lead in the company, globally.

My job is to engender a culture of quality in product groups that have dozens or hundreds or thousands of engineers working in them, and to “weave” quality into the organizational fabric.

Do you want to know how I do that?

What you will learn

  1. Quality is everyone's agenda. It's never someone else's problem.
  2. Nobody wakes up in the morning looking to ship a bad product. but a culture lacking in quality pushes us to do it anyway.
  3. Quality is always intentional and premeditated. It has to be seeded into the cultural fiber of the organisation.

Session Details

  • Intermediate
  • 45 Minutes
  • Includes 15mins Q&A
  • Creating Healthy Organisations
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Session Speaker

Amir Shani

Quality Engineering Lead – Meta, Israel

I’ve been in the field of QA for almost twenty years. As a Medic in the IDF I was leading the integration of new software into army clinics across Israel. After I finished my military service and had about a year of traveling in the east with my then girlfriend (current wife), I began studying my B.sc in CS. Parallel to my studies, I started working as a tester for a small tech company distributed across the US, UK, and Israel. Two years later I was leading their QA team, remotely managing testers in the UK. I’ve spent the following ten or so years jumping around a few Israeli startups, always building up new QA teams and maturing them.

Four and a half years ago I came upon an open QA Lead position at Facebook. Back then I knew that “Facebook has no QA”, so it was clear to me that it must be an interesting position. Since I joined Facebook, I have experienced the most intensive growth of my career. I supported amazing projects in the field of connectivity, working with telecom companies across developing markets in Africa, South America & South East Asia, to bring affordable high speed public wi-fi networks to unconnected and under-served regions and populations. I had to deal with new challenges in multiple disciplines, at a breakneck pace and at a scale few can imagine.

About a year ago I transitioned to supporting Facebook Financial products (now named Meta-Financial-Technologies) and building Meta’s central compliance, Risk and Care platform (Meta-Financial-Integrity). I am truly passionate about Quality and the effect a good QA team can have on the whole organization. On a personal note: I am a family man, married, father to three amazing and adorable agents of minor chaos. I am a huge animal lover, and an overall dork

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