Camille Fournier Keynote Speaker
- Author of 'The Manager's Path' and '97 Things Every Engineering Manager Should Know'
- Expert on bridging the gap between business and engineering
- Former software engineer at Microsoft
Camille Fournier's Biography
Camille Fournier is an engineering executive and author of ‘The Manager’s Path’, as well as the editor of ’97 Things Everyone Should Know About Engineering Management’.
She is the former Chief Technology Officer of Rent the Runway, a transformative brand that offers unprecedented access to designer fashion, disrupting the way millions of women get dressed. She was formerly a member of the engineering leadership team at Two Sigma Investments and is now working as a Managing Director in the banking sector.
She is an open source contributor and project committee member for both Apache ZooKeeper and the Dropwizard web framework. Prior to working for Rent the Runway, Camille served as a software engineer at Microsoft, and most recently, spent several years as a technical specialist at Goldman Sachs, creating distributed systems for managing risk analysis and firmwide infrastructure.
She has a BS in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University and an MS in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Camille is a well-respected voice within the tech community, speaking on a variety of topics such as engineering leadership, distributed systems, scaling teams, and technical architecture. In 2017 she released her book, “The Manager’s Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change.”
Camille Fournier's Speaking Topics
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Engineering and start up leadership
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Women in technology
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Big data
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Open source software
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Bringing a product mindset to engineering organizations
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