Breaking Down Productivity Engineering with Micheal Benedict

Micheal Benedict, head of Engineering Productivity at Pinterest, is back again! After such a long and intensive conversation last time, Corey had to have Micheal back to take an even deeper dive. For starters, Micheal tells us what exactly his team is doing, and what exactly it means to lead engineering productivity. Micheal divulges more details on productivity engineering and what they’re doing at Pinterest. He traces the history of productivity engineering at Pinterest and offers some distinct observations on building out internal teams. Micheal talks about what it is like in his day to day complexities of working in AWS. Tune in for Micheal’s take on the specific details of productivity and the cloud.
About Micheal Benedict
Micheal Benedict leads Engineering Productivity at Pinterest. He and his team focus on developer experience, building tools and platforms for over a thousand engineers to effectively code, build, deploy and operate workloads on the cloud. Mr. Benedict has also built Infrastructure and Cloud Governance programs at Pinterest and previously, at Twitter -- focussed on managing cloud vendor relationships, infrastructure budget management, cloud migration, capacity forecasting and planning and cloud cost attribution (chargeback). 


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