Beequal: Hiring and retaining a diverse engineering team

Name: Beequal: Hiring and retaining a diverse engineering team
Start: 2022-09-01T00:00:00+00:00

Diverse teams are good for your business, but how do you go about hiring a more diverse team, and more importantly, how do you retain them?

Overview

Diverse teams are good for your business, but how do you go about hiring a more diverse team, and more importantly, how do you retain them?

Access the webinar to hear from Sarah Wells, the former Technical Director at Financial Times, on how they made a difference to diversity and inclusion in the workplace.

About this event

Sarah Wells worked at the Financial Times for over a decade. Joining them as a Senior Developer, she was one of the only women in engineering.

By the time she left at the end of last year, across permanent engineers in London the FT had around 35% women and non-binary, evenly spread at all levels and in the Tech Leadership Group, it was men who were in the minority.

Hear about the things the FT did that made a difference to impact diversity and inclusion in the workplace.

Event Speakers:

Former Technical Director at Financial Times

Sarah Wells

About Sarah Wells
Sarah Wells has been a developer for 20 years, leading delivery teams across consultancy, financial services, and media. Building the FT's content and metadata publishing platform using a microservices-based architecture led her to develop a deep interest in operability, observability, and DevOps, and at the beginning of 2018 she took over responsibility for Operations and Reliability at the Financial Times. Sarah then moved to take over Engineering Enablement, adding platform and security engineering into the mix, giving her responsibility for all the teams at the FT who build tools and services for other engineers. Sarah left the FT at the end of 2021 and is now writing a book on how to make a success of microservice architecture.