Build Better Fast: Identify Your Product Velocity Traps

Albert Cheng has led growth for Duolingo, Grammarly, and Chess.com - three of the most popular and beloved products in the world. Earlier in his career he built and scaled live streaming features on YouTube to 20M users. Albert enjoys rapidly experimenting and iterating on consumer products that people rely on every day.

Eric Weber is the Head of Data at Grammarly. Previously, Eric led data and engineering teams at StichFix, Yelp and LinkedIn. By bringing engineering rigor to data, Eric has helped transform organizations that drive strategic opinions, build foundations that enhance velocity and encourage data-driven decisions.

Nirmal Selvaraj is Sr.Director of Engineering, leading the Growth team at Chime. Prior to this, Nirmal led Growth Engineering at Grammarly, Instart, Amazon Music and Ancestry.com. Over the years, Nirmal has built several Growth Engineering teams from growth hacking to a true portfolio organization across 5 different industries. Nirmal has transformed organizations into high performing ones through technology, process, people and culture.

Stefanie Tignor is the Head of Product Data Science and Engineering at Grammarly. Stefanie's team uses data to guide internal feature development and opportunity size, test, and launch new product bets. Prior to Grammarly, Stefanie was the Head of Data at Pave, leading the technical development and monetization of their real-time compensation benchmarkingproduct. She founded and scaled the data science team at employee engagement company Humu (acquired), and has conducted data science work about employee communication and well-being for Google's People Analytics team and the Virgin Group.