Build & maintain complex distributed systems
October 1–2, 2017: Training
October 2–4, 2017: Tutorials & Conference
New York, NY
Margaret Gourlay

Margaret Gourlay
Senior QA Engineer, VictorOps

Margaret Gourlay is a senior QA engineer at VictorOps. Margaret’s background is in video game quality assurance. She holds a degree in theoretical math. When she’s not working, she enjoys playing games with friends far and wide, learning new things, and playing outside with her kids.

Sessions

1:30pm–2:10pm Tuesday, October 3, 2017
Lessons in interpersonal dynamics from massively multiplayer online games
Technical Leadership
 Location: Grand Ballroom West
Margaret Gourlay (VictorOps)
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In 2005, a World of Warcraft bug helped epidemiological research in unexpected ways. Margaret Gourlay draws on this research to share insight into what works and what doesn’t for functional teams and explains how using these ideas has helped VictorOps strategically grow its engineering team in unexpected ways. Read more.