Camille Fournier Keynote Speaker

VP of Engineering, CoreWeave
Former software engineer at Microsoft
Author of 'The Manager's Path', '97 Things Every Engineering Manager Should Know', and 'Platform Engineering'

Camille Fournier's Biography

Camille Fournier is an engineering executive and author of ‘The Manager’s Path‘, ‘Platform Engineering’, as well as the editor of ’97 Things Everyone Should Know About Engineering Management’.

She is the former Chief Technology Officer of Rent the Runway, a transformative brand that offers unprecedented access to designer fashion, disrupting the way millions of women get dressed. She was formerly a member of the engineering leadership team at Two Sigma Investments and is currently VP of Engineering for

She is an open source contributor and project committee member for both Apache ZooKeeper and the Dropwizard web framework. Prior to working for Rent the Runway, Camille served as a software engineer at Microsoft, and most recently, spent several years as a technical specialist at Goldman Sachs, creating distributed systems for managing risk analysis and firmwide infrastructure.

She has a BS in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University and an MS in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Camille is a well-respected voice within the tech community, speaking on a variety of topics such as engineering leadership, distributed systems, scaling teams, and technical architecture.

Engineering and start up leadership

Women in technology

Big data

Open source software

Bringing a product mindset to engineering organizations

She draws on senior engineering roles at CoreWeave, Rent the Runway and Two Sigma to advise on scaling high performance technology organisations.
She translates distributed systems and platform engineering into clear guidance for executives and technical leaders.
She equips managers with practical frameworks from The Manager’s Path to build resilient teams and leadership pipelines.
She combines deep technical expertise with business acumen to align engineering excellence with strategic growth.