Irmela Göhl
Engineering Manager
Irmela is a Berlin-based engineering leader with 13+ years across the stack, from Rails, Go, and TypeScript backends to Flutter mobile apps. She has led teams in healthcare integrations and home energy management, and worked as a senior engineer at Shopify.
For most of the last seven years she has worked in leadership while staying close to the code. She cares about diverse teams, clean code, performance, and user experience.
How to make everyone contribute to our Flutter App (Even Non-Mobile Devs)
This is the story on how we enabled more people to contribute to our Flutter App. This includes Backend Engineers, Designers and Product Managers.
This talk will cover our progress from going from 0 non-Flutter Contributors to having 30% of monthly contributors not be Flutter-First Contributors.
We will explain our Team Setups with a Platform Team and various Feature Teams contributing and will shine a light on this topic from engineering and management angles.
The talk will cover:
Codebase Architecture:
How to successfully structure code so getting started takes minutes, not days.
Psychological Safety:
How to build guardrails so beginners feel safe committing code and existing developers don't fear for their job.
The AI Enabler:
How we leverage AI tools to onboard people who have never coded before.
Metrics that Matter:
How to measure the success of cross-functional enablement.