Engineering Enablement by Abi Noda

Establishing a DevEx team in a high-growth company | Willie Yao (Notion, Airbnb)

Sep 28, 2022

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Developer Experience

03:50

Developer Experience at Airbnb

02:31

Developer Experience at Notion

04:38

Introduction

3min

Airbnb Developer Productivity - What Stage of the Company?

3min

Developer Experience at Airbnb

3min

The Monolith - Developer Productivity or Experience?

2min

How Did You Be Customer First at Airbnb?

6min

Airbnb

2min

Developer Experience

4min

Getting Started Too Early on Developer Experience

5min

The Importance of Productivity and Building Abundances and Investing

3min

10.

Airbnb - How Unified or Disparate Were the Tools Used by Developers at Airbnb?

4min

11.

Is There a Future for Developer Experience?

3min

12.

Developer Experience at Notion

5min

13.

Building a Culture Around DevOps

6min

In this episode, Willie Yao, Head of Infrastructure at Notion and former Head of Developer Infrastructure at Airbnb, provides a unique perspective on how Developer Experience teams work in hypergrowth companies. He shares how Airbnb developed a customer-first mindset internally, what it took to get Airbnb’s leadership invested in that effort, and how he’s approaching DevEx at Notion today.

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