Simon Emms
Simon has been working as a software engineer since 2006, in which time he's done work for the likes of Gitpod, DPD, Specsavers, British Pathé, the Red Cross and others. Initially specialising in the NodeJS ecosystem, he's used pretty much all of the major languages over the years and since 2017 has been focused on building DevOps solutions and Cloud-native applications that help engineers to work faster and more productively.
When not behind a computer he's a keen gardener, beekeeper and makes his own sausages. He hates talking about himself in the third person.
Senior Platform Engineer at Konstruct
Session
Mentorship is crucial when building engineering teams, but is often the first casualty when the proverbial hits the fan. Being a good mentor is hard, and encouraging reluctant senior engineers to mentor their teammates is even harder.
In this talk, Simon discusses lessons learned from an area where mentoring is ingrained, offered generously and crucial to success - beekeeping.
Expect whimsy, pictures of queens and how beekeeping helped reframe the perennial problem of engineering mentorship.
After this talk, you will have tools to run improved mentoring programmes that encourage better transfer of knowledge and skills amongst your peers.