Craft 2025 - Randy Shoup
Randy Shoup
SVP Engineering at Thrive Market
About Randy Shoup

Randy has spent more than three decades building distributed systems and high performing teams, and has worked as a senior technology leader at eBay, Google, Stitch Fix, and WeWork. He coaches CTOs, advises companies, and generally makes a nuisance of himself wherever possible. He talks a lot -- sometimes at conferences about software -- and is interested in the nexus of culture, technology, and organization.

He is currently SVP Engineering at Thrive Market.

Talk
Platform Engineering: Lessons from the Rise and Fall of eBay
Topics:
agile development
architecture
leadership
modernization
software architecture
technical excellence
testing
software development
Level: General
In schedule:
Main stage
May 30, 15:40 - 16:25 CET

Once a stock market darling and a pioneering hyperscaler in the 1990s and early 2000s, eBay has been in steady decline since the 2010s. A household name with a flat business, eBay has been unable to make substantive strides in its market reach or its engineering outcomes in the last 15 years. What happened?I was a Distinguished Architect at eBay from 2004 to 2011, and returned as VP of Platform En...