Our journey navigating the technosphere
I lead the tech teams at OVO. We're building the intelligent energy system of the future.
Hi, our names are Gavin [https://www.linkedin.com/in/gavin-wade-6326792] and Ed [https://www.linkedin.com/in/ed-conolly-77547424/], we’ve both worked at OVO for over 5 years in product and technology leadership roles. In that time the team has grown an extraordinary amount. Today we’re 40 cross-func…
Ed Conolly
Towards the end of 2017 we spent some time as a leadership team working on our key values. We've been growing a lot as a business, taking on more engineers and engineering managers. Rapid growth can be a difficult thing to handle, so we decided that to continue to have a productive and aligned leade…
Ed Conolly
There’s quite a few different approaches to how you go about working with version control in a team. There are some common patterns like gitflow or feature branching from master. It’s also not uncommon for teams to come up with their own strategies with varying complexity. I’m going to discuss in th…
Ed Conolly
Attempting to define a culture in words is challenging, often when we discuss tech culture we’re really talking about a set of behaviours that we ask ourselves and our teams to exhibit. Creating the right environment to work in is arguably the most important thing any technology company can do. We t…
Ed Conolly
Haskell is a purely functional programming language, it's interesting to draw a comparison between Scala and Haskell to see how Scala's hybrid functional / OO approach alters the way it expresses problems. Here's a (very) brief overview of the language and how it compares against Scala. Haskell and…
Ed Conolly