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Edmond Lau

Palo Alto

Building the productivity suite for the mobile generation @ Quip.

Previously, helped the team at Quora grow from 12 to 70. Built the onboarding and mentoring programs for new engineers, led engineering on user growth, and built everything from moderation tools, product features, recommendations, infrastructure, etc. Before Quora, led the analytics team at Ooyala and worked on search quality at Google.

Blogger on engineering, productivity, and culture with essays featured and quoted on Forbes, Slate, and Techcrunch. More at http://www.theeffectiveengineer.com/

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34 minutes
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Growth Hacking Software Engineering Python Productivity Information Architecture Scalability Distributed Systems Culture Building Professional Mentoring Onboarding

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User Growth Engineering

I led engineering on user growth at Quora. Now I'm doing the same at Quip. In one year at Quora, we grew all our metrics by over 3x (http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/28/quora-grows-more-than-3x-across-all-metrics-in-the-past-year/).

Building Question & Answer Communities

During my 3 years working on the Q&A site Quora, I focused on a wide variety of aspects ranging from moderation tools, product features, user growth initiatives, infrastructure, recommendations, and more.

Onboarding Programs for New Engineers

I built the onboarding and mentoring programs at Quora that enabled dozens of new engineers to ramp up quickly and start shipping features and bug fixes to production, many in their first week. As part of this effort, I researched onboarding programs at Google, Facebook, and man others.

You can find more details at: http://www.theeffectiveengineer.com/blog/how-to-build-a-good-onboarding-process-for-new-hires-at-a-startup

Building Great Engineering Culture

I helped grow the team at Quora from 12 people to nearly 70 and have spent a lot of time thinking about how to shape the culture. I've written extensively about what it means to build a great engineering culture and have spoken to startups and more established companies in and out of Silicon Valley.

More details at: http://www.theeffectiveengineer.com/blog/what-makes-a-good-engineering-culture

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Edmond was very knowledgable and super helpful. I got the answers I was looking for and would definitely jump on a call with him again!

Ronald Timoshenko Source: Clarity

Insightful call, provided a series of valuable, actionable recommendations. Recommended.

john honovich Source: Clarity

Was really good to talk to Edmond. Our 45 minute conversation saved me 6 months of a/b testing efforts. I am looking forward to our next call!

Roshni Mahtani Source: Clarity

Edmond is everything that I had heard of and then some! He was able to quickly understand the situation. He gave me great advice consisting of very practical and helpful suggestions. He listened very intently and asked me very relevant questions. I will definitely be reaching out to him again!

He messaged me before our call asking me to send him a list of questions. This shows his attention to detail and his awesome attitude as he wanted us to make the best use of our time during the call.

Mala Ag Source: Clarity

I've talked with over 100 experts on Clarity. The call with Edmond was one of the best. He was able to help me think through the key factors for success.

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Member since March 2014