Elevate 2023 Speaker
Kent Wills
Director of Engineering - Engineering Effectiveness at Yelp
10+ years leading high performing, cross functional groups
Joined Oct 2018
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Kent currently leads the Engineering Effectiveness Group (70+) at Yelp, supporting the broader engineering organization (1000+). He joined Yelp when they had just over 200 engineers and has been part of growing the organization since, doubling the group's size over the past couple of years. He's a strong advocate for DE&I and works with recruiting to build and evolve the broader IC pipeline at Yelp.
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What people are saying about Kent
Thanks for the great advice as always !
Vijay Krishna Dandu - Senior Systems Engineer @ Momentive
Kent's advice was exact to the needs of my team. I am delighted I had this conversation and am looking forward to putting these into action.
Manjunath Basaralu Srinivasa - Engineering Manager @ Atlassian
Thank you Kent for valuable perspectives on things related to engineering effectiveness and productivity
Manoj Pahuja - Engineering Director, Quality and Productivity @ Shippo
Kent understood my situation better, shared similar scenarios, and gave very specific actionable advice. He is very inspiring and super helpful. I would like to check all the boxes above - actionable advice, candor, great listener, inspiring, preparedness and productive conversation.
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