About Theresa Neate

Theresa Neate is an award winning engineering senior leader with a background in service desk, software delivery, quality engineering and platform developer experience, who loves lean and agility and advocates for holistic system quality and systems thinking. She has an additional side interest in cloud, infrastructure and networking.

She is currently Head of Engineering at Xero.

Her career spans more than 2 decades of technology and leadership experience. Her recent experience includes ThoughtWorks, Australia Post’s Digital Delivery Centre, digital icon REA Group, and APAC Director Of Quality Engineering for technology consultancy Slalom Build.

She is co-founder, co-organiser and trainer at DevOps Represent (formerly DevOps Girls). She also writes and speaks on topics of quality, systems thinking, lean, agile and devops. Her last formal qualification was a Diploma of Networking, while working full time in a leadership role. She’s a lifelong and eternally curious sceptic and learner.

You can find Theresa at theresaneate.net and on Twitter at @theresaneate.

Leadership for Intelligent Software Engineering

You might well wonder what “intelligent” software engineering is. The Britannica Dictionary defines the word “intelligent”: as: “having or showing the ability to easily learn or understand things or to deal with new or difficult situations”. Software Engineering is a specialised discipline, and can be done well or badly. So too, leadership. And so too, software engineering leadership.

In this talk, Theresa Neate will discuss how to intelligently lead Software Engineering. And also what that synergy and symbiosis with its partners Product and Design looks like: where engineering is adaptive, resilient and above all co-leads mutual success in building products that customers love.