Everyone will always hate you and you will never deliver enough: welcome to Engineering

​Agenda: Every job is hard, but software engineering in a SaaS product company is uniquely hard. All demands flow downhill and end up with engineering, demand is always greater than supply, and every feature you deliver just leads to more demand. Let's get inside the heads of your internal customers, understand why they ask for the things they do, and work through some practical ways to handle and respond to the never-ending list of stuff to do.

​Who should attend? This session is open to CTOs, CEOs and engineering leadership at Kiwi tech start-ups

​Hosts: This session is led by Ben Gracewood and Michael Koziarski.

​Ben is an Operating Partner at Movac. Prior, he was Vend’s first engineering manager, where he grew the engineering team from 8 to 80, shipped product on average every 6 minutes, and ultimately contributed to Vend’s ~NZ$500m exit. He’s also co-founder of NZ’s largest independent software engineering conference, Codemania.

​Michael is the VP of Engineering, Retail at Lightspeed, a NYSE-listed point-of-sale and e-commerce software platform provider. Michael oversaw the integration of the Vend engineering teams and product into Lightspeed, when Lightspeed acquired Vend. Prior, Michael was the CTO at Vend.

​This session is part of the Movac Engineering Chapter Curriculum. Full line-up and registration: Introducing...the Engineering Chapter | Movac | Venture Capital