Zero to One: Building the Grammarly Business Product

Dec

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Zero to One: Building the Grammarly Business Product

Join the Grammarly Business Engineering team for a series of lightning talks on how you can make an outsize impact in 2021.

Wednesday, December 16th, 2020, 4:00 PM PT

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Written communication is more important than ever. Learn how a 400+ team built the AI-powered writing assistant with 30 million daily active users—and hear about their path to capturing the business and enterprise market.

Learn more about Grammarly Business!

4:00pm

WELCOME

Hear from Brad Hoover, our CEO, and Dorian Stone, our General Manager for Grammarly Business, about how we got here and where we’re going.

4:10pm

INSIDE GRAMMARLY

Learn from Grammarly B2B engineers in a series of five minute “lightning talks” moderated by Heidi Williams, Grammarly’s Head of Engineering for B2B and Platform.

5:00pm

MEET THE TEAM

Talk with the team in Zoom breakout rooms about our technical fields and what we’ll be focusing on in 2021.

Meet our Hosts

Brad Hoover

CEO

Dorian Stone

General Manager, Grammarly Business

Heidi Williams

Head of Engineering, B2B & Platform

Lightning Talks

4:10 PM

[Talk 1] Being Agile without Sprints

Ben Mackey, Engineering Manager, Grammarly Business

Rob Brazier, Head of Product, Grammarly Business

How Ben and Rob keep their teams Agile without using sprints: the benefits of fast iteration and skipping planning/estimation.

4:20 PM

[Talk 2] MVVM Along: Rearchitecting Front-End Code

Bryan Alcorn, Front-End Software Engineer

Why we picked MVVM for Kaza and what benefits it gives us.

4:30 PM

[Talk 3] Engineering Excellence: a view from the first 90 Days

Sasha Iatsenko, Back-End Software Engineer

What Sasha immediately appreciated about Grammarly as the new person on the team.

4:40 PM

[Talk 4] The Best Engineering Meeting I had was a Sales Call

Vlad Nykytiuk, Back-End Software Engineer
How we engage with customers in a way that benefits us as an engineering team—and how it benefits the customer.

4:50 PM

[Talk 5] Ace the (Virtual) Technical Interview and Find your Fit During COVID

Kendal Cockrel, Full-Stack Software Engineer

Tips for preparing for interviews and interviewing over Zoom. Also, how to fill in the “culture” gap and evaluate companies as they evaluate you.

5:00 PM

Networking

Feel free to hang out at the end to chat with our speakers and Grammarly’s Recruiting team!

Come meet the team!

Learn more about the tech that makes Grammarly possible.

Attendees will receive an upgrade code to access all of Grammarly Premium features. We hope to see you soon!

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