Three key learnings from building globally distributed teams are: 1) brilliant and driven engineers come from diverse backgrounds and do not fit a single profile, 2) hire great leaders and empower them to do their work without micromanagement, and 3) team members want to work on projects that feel important and impactful.

1. 3 Key Learnings From Building
Globally Distributed Teams
Pat Poels
SVP Engineering

2. Things to know about me
● American, based in London
● 3 years at Snyk, 30 years in the engineering field
● 3 sons, ages 29, 27, and 24
● No undergraduate degree
● 5 years playing poker for a living
● 2 time World Series of Poker Bracelet winner

3. Develop fast.
Stay secure.

4. Snyk enables you to fix the
DevSecOps cycle
Extend the reach of your security team with a developer-centric approach
Empower
developers
Enable
security
team

5. Application intelligence Security intelligence
Developer Security Platform
Security Education
Designed to support any security workflow at any scale
Ecosystem
Developer experience
Build securely Govern at scale
Close the loop
Snyk
Snyk
Container
Snyk
Open
Source
Snyk
Code
Ecosystem
Snyk
Snyk
IaC …
Prioritize with context

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Snyk’s Engineering Hubs Today
Boston
Malmö
Tel Aviv
Cluj
London
Zürich

7. Distributed Teams - Key Learnings
Brilliant, driven engineers don’t all look the same
Hire great leaders, and get out of their way
Nobody wants to do unimportant work

8. Brilliant, driven engineers
don’t all look the same

9. Hire great leaders, and get
out of their way

10. Nobody wants to do
unimportant work

11. Q & A
Pat Poels
SVP Engineering, Snyk
pat.poels@snyk.io

12. Develop fast.
Stay secure.

13. Thank you!