Speed Without Slop: Keeping the Quality Bar as You Scale
Why "move fast" and "build it right" aren't opposites, and the team structures, rituals, and ownership models that let a growing engineering org ship quickly without piling up regret.
Speaking
Talks on building engineering teams, shipping with craft, and where software companies go next.
I speak at conferences, company offsites, and podcasts about engineering leadership from the inside: what it takes to scale a team at a startup without losing the quality bar.
Talks
Most SaaS Companies Will Not Survive
The argument from my essay, expanded for the stage: what's changing in software economics, which companies make it through, and what that means for the people building them.
Who Cleans Up After the AI?
What AI-written code is really doing to engineering teams, and how leaders can get the speed without inheriting the mess.
From Self-Taught to Leading Teams
Writing code as a teenager, co-founding a company, and the lessons from moving from IC to engineering leadership without a playbook.
Formats
- Keynotes & talks20 to 45 minutes, conference or company event
- Panels & firesidesModerated conversation or Q&A
- PodcastsAudio or video, remote
- WorkshopsFor engineering managers and leadership teams
Appearances
Speaker kit
Short bio
Owen Bick is an engineering leader who builds teams, ships products, and scales startups. He started writing code as a teenager and has spent 15+ years building products and leading engineering teams. He is currently an Engineering Manager at FieldPulse and writes about engineering leadership at owenbick.com.
