Event: ELC Annual 2022 (Engineering Leadership Community), October 27–28, San Francisco Category: Career Speaker: Lindsey Simon, VP of Engineering, Vercel
Abstract
The way you reflect on your past career — and the way you visualize your future career — shapes who you become. If you can learn to visualize the story of your future, you can make choices today that grow you to new heights. For anyone weighing new opportunities, rehearsing that story in advance can help you recognize whether a role is the right next step.
In this talk, Lindsey walks through his own career journey: paths he took (and ones he didn't), how those choices appear in hindsight, and where he sees the future heading at Vercel.
Speaker bio
Making the web faster has been Lindsey's lifelong career ambition. Before joining Vercel, he spent seven years at Google, where he was an original core team member who helped launch App Engine and later served as tech lead on both the Google Translate and Web Performance teams. He has lived in San Francisco for 15 years and, outside of coding, writes music and forages for wild mushrooms.